Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 47
Lady Wilde has kindly granted me the use of her effective version of "The Horned Women;" and I have specially to thank Messrs.
Who acts: I, Messrs · What happens: grant, have, thank, use · To what, where: Lady, effective version
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, Messrs), 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 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Wilde | Wilde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lady | flat |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 granted | aux |
| 4 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 5 granted | advmod |
| 5 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 granted | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 use | det |
| 8 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 granted | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 version | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 version | nmod:poss |
| 11 | effective | effective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 version | amod |
| 12 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 use | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Women | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Women | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Women | det |
| 16 | Horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Women | amod |
| 17 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 version | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 granted | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 granted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 granted | conj |
| 23 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 22 have | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 thank | mark |
| 25 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 have | xcomp |
| 26 | Messrs | Messrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 thank | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | present · perfect · passive | Lady | kindly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | specially property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | Messrs | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | use | Lady's effective version of the Horned Women | nom use «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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