More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 24
Further research is required to determine which is English and which Celtic among Anglo-Irish folk-tales.
Who acts: English · What happens: require, determine, be · To what, where: Further research, English
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English), 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 | Further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 research | amod |
| 2 | research | research | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 required | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 required | aux:pass |
| 4 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 determine | mark |
| 6 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 required | xcomp |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 English | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 English | cop |
| 9 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 determine | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Celtic | cc |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 Celtic | nsubj |
| 12 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 English | conj |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 tales | case |
| 14 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 19 tales | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Anglo | punct |
| 16 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tales | amod |
| 17 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tales | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 folk | punct |
| 19 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Celtic | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | present · passive | Further research | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | determine | to-infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | English | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | English | among Anglo Irish folk tales | 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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