Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 45
By this means I hope I have put together a volume, containing both the best, and the best known folk-tales of the Celts.
Who acts: this, I, Celts · What happens: mean, hope, put together, contain, know, tell · To what, where: volume, best · 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 (this, I, Celts), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hope | nsubj |
| 5 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 put | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 volume | det |
| 11 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 containing | punct |
| 13 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 put | advcl |
| 14 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 16 best | cc:preconj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 best | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 containing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tales | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tales | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tales | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 tales | amod |
| 21 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 tales | amod |
| 22 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tales | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 folk | punct |
| 24 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 means | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Celts | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Celts | det |
| 27 | Celts | Celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 tales | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put together | present · perfect | I | a volume | together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent volume=Goal | |||
| 4 | contain | gerund | I not said here | the best | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot good=Theme | ||||
| 5 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | tell | the Celts | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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