Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 49

Sampson Low & Co., for the use of Mr. Curtin's Tales.

What happens: use · To what, where: Curtin Tales

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	Sampson	Sampson	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Co.	nsubj
2	Low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Co.	amod
3	&	&	CCONJ	_	4 Co.	cc
4	Co.	co.	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 use	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 use	det
8	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Co.	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 Tales	case
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Curtin	nmod:desc
11	Curtin	Curtin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Tales	compound
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Curtin	case
13	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 use	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Co.	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use			Curtin Tales					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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