English Fairy Tales, XLII. Master of All Masters., sentence 10
_Remarks_.--According to Mr. Hartland, the story is designed as a satire on pedantry, and is as old in Italy as Straparola (sixteenth century).
What happens: accord, design, be · To what, where: story, Italy
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLII. Master of All Masters.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 2 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | SYM | _ | 2 Remarks | discourse |
| 5 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Hartland | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 According | fixed |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hartland | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Hartland | Hartland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Remarks | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 designed | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 designed | aux:pass |
| 13 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Hartland | parataxis |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 satire | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 satire | det |
| 16 | satire | satire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 designed | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 pedantry | case |
| 18 | pedantry | pedantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 satire | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 old | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 old | cc |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 old | cop |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 old | case |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 designed | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Italy | case |
| 25 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 old | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 Straparola | case |
| 27 | Straparola | Straparola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 old | obl |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 century | punct |
| 29 | sixteenth | sixteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 century | amod |
| 30 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Straparola | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 century | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | design | present · passive | the story | as a satire on pedantry | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Result as satire=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Italy | as Straparola; old property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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