Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 4

Ireland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and Croker has found a whole school of successors in Carleton, Griffin, Kennedy, Curtin, and Douglas Hyde.

Who acts: Ireland · What happens: begin, collect, find, tell · To what, where: folk tales, Croker · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ireland), 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	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 collect	mark
4	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tales	nmod:poss
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 folk	punct
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 collect	obj
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	11 early	advmod
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 early	advmod
11	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 collect	advcl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 country	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 early	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Europe	case
16	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 country	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
19	Croker	Croker	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 found	nsubj:pass
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 found	aux
21	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 began	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 school	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 school	amod
24	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 successors	case
26	successors	successor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 school	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Carleton	case
28	Carleton	Carleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 successors	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Griffin	punct
30	Griffin	Griffin	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Carleton	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Kennedy	punct
32	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Carleton	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Curtin	punct
34	Curtin	Curtin	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Carleton	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Hyde	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Hyde	cc
37	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Hyde	compound
38	Hyde	Hyde	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 found	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Ireland			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	collect	to-infinitive	Ireland not said here	Ireland's folk tales		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
3	find	present · perfect · passive		Croker	Douglas Hyde obl	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme school=Attribute
4	tell		Ireland			nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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