Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 11

But one can have too much even of that very good thing, and I have therefore avoided as far as possible the more familiar "formulae" of folk-tale literature.

Who acts: one, I · What happens: have, avoid · To what, where: much, familiar formulae

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: who acts (one, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
2	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	12 thing	advmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 thing	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 thing	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 much	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 avoided	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 avoided	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 avoided	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 avoided	aux
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	18 avoided	advmod
18	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 have	parataxis
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 far	advmod
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 formulae	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 possible	mark
22	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 far	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 formulae	det
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 familiar	advmod
25	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 formulae	amod
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 formulae	punct
27	formulae	formulae	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 avoided	obl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 formulae	punct
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 literature	case
30	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tale	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 folk	punct
32	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 literature	compound
33	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 formulae	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	can	one	much					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	avoid	present · perfect	I	the familiar formulae of tale literature				therefore property	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: 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: «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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