Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 14

The success of a fairy book, I am convinced, depends on the due admixture of the comic and the romantic: Grimm and Asbjoernsen knew this secret, and they alone.

Who acts: I, success, Grimm · What happens: be, depend, know, admix · To what, where: fairy book, secret, comic

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, success, Grimm), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 success	det
2	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 depends	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 book	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
5	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 book	amod
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 success	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 convinced	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 convinced	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 convinced	cop
10	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 book	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 success	punct
12	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 admixture	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 admixture	det
15	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 admixture	amod
16	admixture	admixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 depends	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 comic	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 comic	det
19	comic	comic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 admixture	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 romantic	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 romantic	det
22	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 comic	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
24	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 knew	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Asbjoernsen	cc
26	Asbjoernsen	Asbjoernsen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Grimm	conj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 depends	conj
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 secret	det
29	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knew	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 alone	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 alone	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 alone	nsubj
33	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 depends	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 depends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I	a fairy book not said here	convinced property	tree rules
2	depend	present	the success of a fairy book		on the due admixture of the comic; alone property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on admixture=Theme
3	know	past	Grimm and Asbjoernsen	this secret		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
4	admix			the comic		nom admixture «state 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: «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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