Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 10
It would have been easy, especially from Kennedy, to have made up a volume entirely filled with "Grimm's Goblins" _a la Celtique_.
What happens: be, make up, fill · To what, where: volume, Kennedy
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 easy | cop |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kennedy | punct |
| 7 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 9 Kennedy | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Kennedy | case |
| 9 | Kennedy | Kennedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 made | aux |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 filled | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 made | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 volume | det |
| 16 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 17 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 18 filled | advmod |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 easy | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Goblins | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Goblins | punct |
| 21 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Goblins | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Grimm | case |
| 23 | Goblins | Goblins | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | obl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Goblins | punct |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Goblins | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 la | det |
| 27 | la | la | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Goblins | appos |
| 28 | Celtique | Celtique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 la | appos |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 filled | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make up | to-infinitive · perfect | a volume | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme volume=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | fill | participle | Kennedy | with Grimm's Goblins; entirely property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with goblins=Instrument |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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