Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 34
While I have endeavoured to render the language of the tales simple and free from bookish artifice, I have not felt at liberty to retell the tales in the English way.
Who acts: I · What happens: endeavour, render, not feel, retell · To what, where: language, liberty, tales, English way
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), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 endeavoured | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 endeavoured | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 endeavoured | aux |
| 4 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 felt | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 render | mark |
| 6 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 language | det |
| 8 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 render | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tales | det |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 language | nmod |
| 12 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 free | cc |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 simple | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 artifice | case |
| 16 | bookish | bookish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 artifice | amod |
| 17 | artifice | artifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 free | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 endeavoured | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 felt | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 felt | advmod |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 liberty | case |
| 24 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 felt | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 retell | mark |
| 26 | retell | retell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 liberty | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tales | det |
| 28 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 retell | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 way | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 way | det |
| 31 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 way | amod |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 retell | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endeavour | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | render | to-infinitive | I not said here | the language of the tales | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not feel | present · perfect | I | liberty | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at liberty=Location | ||||
| 4 | retell | to-infinitive | I not said here | the tales | the English way | 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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