Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 41

I have selected as a specimen of this class the Story of Deirdre, collected among the Scotch peasantry a few years ago, into which I have been able to insert a passage taken from an Irish vellum of the twelfth century.

Who acts: I · What happens: select, collect, be, insert, take · To what, where: passage, Irish vellum

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 selected	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 selected	aux
3	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 specimen	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 specimen	det
6	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selected	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 class	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 class	det
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 specimen	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Story	det
11	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 class	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Deirdre	case
13	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Story	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 collected	punct
15	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 selected	parataxis
16	among	among	ADP	_	19 peasantry	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 peasantry	det
18	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 peasantry	compound
19	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 collected	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 years	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 years	amod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ago	obl:unmarked
23	ago	ago	ADV	_	15 collected	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 able	punct
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 able	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 able	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 able	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 able	cop
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 collected	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 insert	mark
32	insert	insert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 passage	det
34	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 insert	obj
35	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 passage	acl
36	from	from	ADP	_	39 vellum	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 vellum	det
38	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 vellum	amod
39	vellum	vellum	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 taken	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 century	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 century	det
42	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 century	amod
43	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 vellum	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 selected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	present · perfect	I			as a specimen of this class	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as specimen=Attribute
2	collect	past				among the Scotch peasantry; ago property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present · perfect	I			able property	tree rules
4	insert	to-infinitive	I not said here	a passage			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Theme
5	take	participle		a passage not said here	a Irish vellum of the twelfth century		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from vellum=Initial_Location

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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