Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 44
I have endeavoured to include in this volume the best and most typical stories told by the chief masters of the Celtic folk-tale, Campbell, Kennedy, Hyde, and Curtin, and to these I have added the best tales scattered elsewhere.
Who acts: I · What happens: endeavour, include, tell, add, scatter · To what, where: Curtin, volume, typical stories, these, best tales · 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 (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 endeavoured | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 endeavoured | aux |
| 3 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 include | mark |
| 5 | include | include | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 volume | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 volume | det |
| 8 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 include | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 best | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 volume | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stories | cc |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 typical | advmod |
| 13 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stories | amod |
| 14 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 volume | conj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stories | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 masters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 masters | det |
| 18 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 masters | amod |
| 19 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 told | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tale | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tale | det |
| 22 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tale | amod |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tale | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 folk | punct |
| 25 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 masters | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Campbell | punct |
| 27 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 tale | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Kennedy | punct |
| 29 | Kennedy | Kennedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Campbell | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Hyde | punct |
| 31 | Hyde | Hyde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Campbell | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Curtin | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Curtin | cc |
| 34 | Curtin | Curtin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 endeavoured | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 added | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 added | cc |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 these | case |
| 38 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 added | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 added | nsubj |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 added | aux |
| 41 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 endeavoured | parataxis |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 tales | det |
| 43 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 tales | amod |
| 44 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 added | obj |
| 45 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 tales | acl |
| 46 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 45 scattered | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 endeavoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endeavour | present · perfect | I | Curtin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | include | to-infinitive | I not said here | in this volume and typical stories goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in volume=Goal | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | typical stories not said here | by the chief masters of the Celtic folk tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | these | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | scatter | participle | the best tales not said here | elsewhere property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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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