Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 36

A few words unknown to the reader only add effectiveness and local colour to a narrative, as Mr. Kipling well knows.

Who acts: few words, Kipling · What happens: add, know · To what, where: effectiveness

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 (few words, Kipling), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 words	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 add	nsubj
4	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 reader	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reader	det
7	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unknown	obl
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 add	advmod
9	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	effectiveness	effectiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 add	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 colour	cc
12	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 colour	amod
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 effectiveness	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 narrative	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 narrative	det
16	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 add	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knows	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 knows	mark
19	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Kipling	nmod:desc
20	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 knows	nsubj
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 knows	advmod
22	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 add	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 add	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	a few words	effectiveness and local colour				to a narrative	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent effectiveness=Patient to narrative=Co-Patient
2	know	present	Kipling Mr.					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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