English Fairy Tales, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., sentence 1

_Source_.--From a Scotch tale, “Nicht Nought Nothing,” collected by Mr. Andrew Lang in Morayshire, published by him first in _Revue Celtique_, t. iii; then in his _Custom and Myth_, p. 89; and again in _Folk-Lore_, Sept. 1890.

What happens: collect, publish · To what, where: Scotch tale

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing.. 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 Source	punct
2	Source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
4	.--	.--	SYM	_	2 Source	discourse
5	From	from	ADP	_	8 tale	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tale	det
7	Scotch	scotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tale	compound
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 .--	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Nothing	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Nothing	punct
11	Nicht	Nicht	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Nought	compound
12	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	13 Nothing	compound
13	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 tale	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Nothing	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Nothing	punct
16	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Nothing	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 Andrew	case
18	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Andrew	nmod:desc
19	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 collected	obl
20	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Andrew	flat
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Morayshire	case
22	Morayshire	Morayshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Andrew	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 published	punct
24	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tale	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 published	obl
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 published	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 Revue	case
29	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Revue	compound
30	Revue	Revue	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 published	obl:agent
31	Celtique	Celtique	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Revue	flat
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 Revue	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 t.	punct
34	t.	t.	X	_	30 Revue	list
35	iii	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	34 t.	flat
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 Custom	punct
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 Custom	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 Custom	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 Custom	nmod:poss
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	41 Custom	punct
41	Custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tale	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 Myth	cc
43	Myth	Myth	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Custom	conj
44	_	_	PUNCT	_	43 Myth	punct
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 p.	punct
46	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Custom	nmod
47	89	89	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	46 p.	flat
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 Folk	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 Folk	cc
50	again	again	ADV	_	53 Folk	advmod
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 Folk	case
52	_	_	PUNCT	_	53 Folk	punct
53	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Custom	conj
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 Lore	punct
55	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Folk	appos
56	_	_	PUNCT	_	55 Lore	punct
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 1890	punct
58	Sept.	September	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	59 1890	nmod:unmarked
59	1890	1890	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	53 Folk	appos
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	participle						by Andrew Mr. in Morayshire	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	publish	participle		a Scotch tale not said here				by Morayshire; first property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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