Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 3
This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection.
Who acts: time, trouble, my · What happens: offer, be, fancy, trouble · To what, where: Tales, one, Celts
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 (time, trouble, my), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 offering | mark |
| 5 | offering | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 time | acl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 offering | obj |
| 7 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 offering | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fancy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fancy | det |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fancy | amod |
| 11 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fancy | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 folk | punct |
| 13 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 specimens | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Celts | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Celts | det |
| 16 | Celts | Celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 fancy | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 islands | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 islands | det |
| 19 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Celts | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 22 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | aux |
| 24 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 26 one | advmod |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 one | cop |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 specimens | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 selection | case |
| 28 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | gerund | this time not said here | Tales = tale | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal specimen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present · perfect | my trouble | one | of selection | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fancy | the Celts of this islands | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | trouble | my | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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