Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 16

For the comic relief of this volume I have therefore had to turn mainly to the Irish peasant of the Pale; and what richer source could I draw from?

Who acts: I, richer source · What happens: have, turn, draw

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, richer source), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 relief	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 relief	det
3	comic	comic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 relief	amod
4	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 volume	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 volume	det
7	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relief	nmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 had	aux
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
11	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 turn	mark
13	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	13 turn	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 peasant	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 peasant	det
17	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 peasant	amod
18	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Pale	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Pale	det
21	Pale	Pale	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 peasant	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 draw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 draw	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 draw	obj
25	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 source	amod
26	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 draw	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 draw	aux
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 draw	nsubj
29	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	29 draw	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I	for the comic relief of this volume; therefore property	tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive	I not said here	to the Irish peasant of the Pale result; mainly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to peasant=Result
3	draw	could	richer source		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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