More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 59
To determine the question of origin we must turn to the purer type given by the other two Celtic versions.
Who acts: we · What happens: determine, turn, give, question · To what, where: question, purer type, origin
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 determine | mark |
| 2 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 turn | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 question | det |
| 4 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 determine | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 origin | case |
| 6 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 question | nmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 turn | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 turn | aux |
| 9 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 type | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 type | det |
| 12 | purer | pure | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 type | amod |
| 13 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turn | obl |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 type | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 versions | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 versions | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 versions | amod |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 versions | nummod |
| 19 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 versions | amod |
| 20 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 given | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | to-infinitive | we not said here | the question of origin | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic | ||||
| 2 | turn | must | we | the purer type | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to type=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | the purer type not said here | by the other two Celtic versions | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | question | origin | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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