Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 43

But the story of Finn, as told by the Gaelic peasantry of to-day, deserves a volume by itself, while the adventures of the Ultonian hero, Cuchulain, could easily fill another.

Who acts: story, adventures · What happens: tell, deserve, fill, adventure · To what, where: story, volume, another, Ultonian hero · 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 (story, adventures), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 deserves	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deserves	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Finn	case
5	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 story	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 story	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 peasantry	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 peasantry	det
11	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 peasantry	amod
12	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 day	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 to	punct
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 peasantry	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct
18	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 volume	det
20	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deserves	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 itself	case
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 deserves	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fill	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 fill	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 adventures	det
26	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fill	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 hero	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hero	det
29	Ultonian	Ultonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hero	compound
30	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 adventures	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Cuchulain	punct
32	Cuchulain	Cuchulain	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hero	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 adventures	punct
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 fill	aux
35	easily	easily	ADV	_	36 fill	advmod
36	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 deserves	parataxis
37	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	36 fill	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 deserves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		the story of Finn not said here	by the Gaelic peasantry of day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	deserve	present	the story of Finn	a volume	by volume	tree rules
3	fill	could	the adventures of the Ultonian hero	another	easily property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent another=Patient
4	adventure			the Ultonian hero		nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient

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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