More English Fairy Tales, LIV. Gobborn Seer, sentence 14

_--But for the accident of the title being preserved there would have been nothing to show that this tale had been imported into England from Ireland, whither it had probably been carried all the way from India.

What happens: preserve, be, show, import, carry · To what, where: title, nothing, tale, England, India · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIV. Gobborn Seer. 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	_	16 nothing	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 nothing	punct
3	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 nothing	cc
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 accident	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 accident	det
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nothing	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 title	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 title	det
9	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accident	nmod
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 preserved	aux:pass
11	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 title	acl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 preserved	advmod
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 nothing	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 nothing	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 nothing	cop
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 show	mark
18	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 nothing	acl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 imported	mark
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 tale	det
21	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 imported	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 imported	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 imported	aux:pass
24	imported	import	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 show	ccomp
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 England	case
26	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 imported	obl
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 Ireland	case
28	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 England	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 carried	punct
30	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	35 carried	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carried	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 carried	aux
33	probably	probably	ADV	_	35 carried	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 carried	aux:pass
35	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 England	acl
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 way	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 carried	obl:unmarked
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 India	case
40	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 carried	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	preserve	gerund · passive	the title not said here	there		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»
2	is a	would · perfect	nothing		for the accident of the title	tree rules
3	show	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	import	past · perfect · passive	this tale	England from Ireland		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	carry	past · perfect · passive	tale	India	all way obl:unmarked; probably, whither property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from india=Initial_Location

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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