Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 12

To do this I had to withdraw from the English-speaking Pale both in Scotland and Ireland, and I laid down the rule to include only tales that have been taken down from Celtic peasants ignorant of English.

Who acts: I · What happens: do, have, withdraw, speak, lay down, include · To what, where: this, speaking Pale, rule, tales, peasants ignorant · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	To	to	PART	_	2 do	mark
2	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 laid	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 do	obj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 do	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 withdraw	mark
7	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	13 Pale	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Pale	det
10	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 speaking	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 English	punct
12	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 Pale	amod
13	Pale	pale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 withdraw	obl
14	both	both	CCONJ	_	16 Scotland	cc:preconj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Scotland	case
16	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Pale	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Ireland	cc
18	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Scotland	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laid	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 laid	nsubj
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 laid	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rule	det
25	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 include	mark
27	include	include	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 rule	acl
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 tales	advmod
29	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 include	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 taken	nsubj:pass
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 taken	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 taken	aux:pass
33	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 tales	acl:relcl
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 taken	compound:prt
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 ignorant	case
36	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 peasants	amod
37	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ignorant	compound
38	ignorant	ignorant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taken	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 English	case
40	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 ignorant	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	this		tree rules
2	have	past	I			tree rules
3	withdraw	to-infinitive	I not said here		the speaking Pale in Scotland and Ireland	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pale=Initial_Location
4	speak speech: other	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lay down	past	I	the rule		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Result
6	include	to-infinitive	I not said here	tales		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
7	take down	present · perfect · passive		tales	peasants ignorant of English	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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