Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 18

But I have felt myself more at liberty than the translators themselves, who have generally been over-literal, in changing, excising, or modifying the original.

Who acts: I, liberty · What happens: feel, be, change, excise, modify · To what, where: myself, liberty, original

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, liberty), 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 felt	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	aux
4	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 felt	obl:unmarked
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 felt	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 liberty	case
8	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obl
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 translators	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 translators	det
11	translators	translator	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liberty	nmod
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 translators	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 over-literal	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 over-literal	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 over-literal	aux
16	generally	generally	ADV	_	18 over-literal	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 over-literal	cop
18	over-literal	over-literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 liberty	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 changing	punct
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 changing	mark
21	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 over-literal	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 excising	punct
23	excising	excise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 changing	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 modifying	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 modifying	cc
26	modifying	modify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 changing	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 original	det
28	original	original	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 modifying	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	present · perfect	I	myself	liberty than the translators translators		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at liberty=Location
2	is	present · perfect	liberty than the translators translators			generally, over-literal property	tree rules
3	change	gerund	liberty than the translators translators not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	excise	gerund	liberty than the translators translators not said here				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	modify	gerund	liberty than the translators translators not said here	the original			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent original=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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