Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 48
Macmillan for right to use Kennedy's "Legendary Fictions," and Messrs.
What happens: use · To what, where: Legendary Fictions
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: 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 | Macmillan | Macmillan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 right | case |
| 3 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Macmillan | nmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 use | mark |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 right | acl |
| 6 | Kennedy | Kennedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fictions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Kennedy | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fictions | punct |
| 9 | Legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Fictions | amod |
| 10 | Fictions | fiction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Macmillan | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Macmillan | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Messrs | cc |
| 14 | Messrs | Messrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Macmillan | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Macmillan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | to-infinitive | Kennedy's Legendary Fictions | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiction=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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