Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 31
The more the reason why they should be collected and put on record while there is yet time.
What happens: collect, put, be · To what, where: Tales, record
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: 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 reason | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 reason | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 collected | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 collected | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 collected | aux:pass |
| 9 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reason | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 collected | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 record | case |
| 13 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 is | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | advcl |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 time | cc |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | should · passive | Tales = tale | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | participle | record | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on record=Destination | |||||
| 3 | be | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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