Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 21
In re-telling them I have had no scruple in interpolating now and then a Scotch incident into an Irish variant of the same story, or _vice versa_.
Who acts: I, scruple, same story · What happens: re-tell, have, interpolate, vary · To what, where: Tales, scruple, Irish variant
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, scruple, same story), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 2 re-telling | mark |
| 2 | re-telling | re-tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 had | advcl |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 re-telling | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | aux |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 scruple | det |
| 8 | scruple | scruple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 interpolating | mark |
| 10 | interpolating | interpolate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 scruple | acl |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 interpolating | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 incident | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 incident | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 incident | det |
| 15 | Scotch | scotch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 incident | amod |
| 16 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 now | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 variant | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 variant | det |
| 19 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 variant | amod |
| 20 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 interpolating | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 story | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 story | amod |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 variant | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 vice | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 vice | cc |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 vice | punct |
| 28 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | parataxis |
| 29 | versa | versa | ADV | _ | 28 vice | advmod |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 vice | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | re-tell | gerund | I not said here | Tales = tale | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | I | no scruple | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scruple=Patient | ||||
| 3 | interpolate | gerund | no scruple not said here | a Irish variant of the same story | now | vn multiply-108-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | vary | the same story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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