Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 22
Where the translators appealed to English folklorists and scholars, I am trying to attract English children.
Who acts: translators, I · What happens: appeal, try, attract · To what, where: English children
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 (translators, 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 appealed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 translators | det |
| 3 | translators | translator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appealed | nsubj |
| 4 | appealed | appeal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 folklorists | case |
| 6 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 folklorists | amod |
| 7 | folklorists | folklorist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appealed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scholars | cc |
| 9 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 folklorists | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trying | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 trying | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 trying | aux |
| 13 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 appealed | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 attract | mark |
| 15 | attract | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trying | xcomp |
| 16 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 children | amod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 attract | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appeal | past | the translators | to English folklorists and scholars | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to folklorist=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | try | present · progressive | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | attract not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | English children | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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