Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 29

The folk-tale in England is in the last stages of exhaustion.

Who acts: folk tale · What happens: be · To what, where: last stages

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 (folk tale), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tale	det
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tale	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 folk	punct
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stages	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 England	case
6	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tale	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stages	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 stages	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stages	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stages	amod
11	stages	stage	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 exhaustion	case
13	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stages	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stages	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the folk tale in England			the last stages		of exhaustion	tree rules

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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