Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 20

In order that the tales should be characteristically Celtic, I have paid more particular attention to tales that are to be found on both sides of the North Channel.

Who acts: tales, I · What happens: be, pay, find · To what, where: order, particular attention, tales, sides

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 (tales, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 order	case
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 paid	obl
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 Celtic	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tales	det
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Celtic	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 Celtic	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 Celtic	cop
8	characteristically	characteristically	ADV	_	9 Celtic	advmod
9	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 order	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 order	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 paid	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 paid	aux
13	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 particular	advmod
15	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 attention	amod
16	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 paid	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 tales	case
18	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 paid	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 found	nsubj:pass
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux:pass
21	to	to	PART	_	23 found	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 found	aux:pass
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tales	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 sides	case
25	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sides	det
26	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 found	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 Channel	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Channel	det
29	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Channel	compound
30	Channel	Channel	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sides	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	should	the tales	order not said here		celtic, characteristically property	tree rules
2	pay	present · perfect	I	particular attention	order	to tales	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
3	find	present · passive	I not said here	tales	both sides of the North Channel		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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