Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 51
If this volume does anything to represent to English children the vision and colour, the magic and charm, of the Celtic folk-imagination, this is due in large measure to the care with which Mr. Nutt has watched its inception and progress.
Who acts: volume, this, Nutt · What happens: do, represent, be, watch · To what, where: anything, inception
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 (volume, this, Nutt), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 does | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 volume | det |
| 3 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 is | advcl |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 does | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 represent | mark |
| 7 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 anything | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 9 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 children | compound |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 represent | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vision | det |
| 12 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 children | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 colour | cc |
| 14 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vision | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 magic | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 magic | det |
| 17 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vision | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 charm | cc |
| 19 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vision | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 imagination | punct |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 imagination | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 imagination | det |
| 23 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 imagination | amod |
| 24 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 imagination | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 folk | punct |
| 26 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 is | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 is | xcomp |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 measure | case |
| 32 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 measure | amod |
| 33 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 due | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 care | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 care | det |
| 36 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 measure | nmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 watched | obl |
| 39 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Nutt | nmod:desc |
| 40 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 watched | nsubj |
| 41 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 watched | aux |
| 42 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 care | acl:relcl |
| 43 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 inception | nmod:poss |
| 44 | inception | inception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 watched | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 progress | cc |
| 46 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 inception | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | this volume | anything | of the Celtic folk imagination | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | represent | to-infinitive | this volume not said here | anything not said here | to English children | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to child=Attribute | |||
| 3 | be | present | this | due property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | watch | present · perfect | Nutt Mr. | volume's inception and progress | with the care | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inception=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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