Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 53
Lastly, I have again to rejoice in the co-operation of my friend, Mr. J. D. Batten, in giving form to the creations of the folk-fancy.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, rejoice, give, create · To what, where: co-operation, form, creations, folk fancy
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), 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 | Lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lastly | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rejoice | mark |
| 7 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 co-operation | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 co-operation | det |
| 10 | co-operation | co-operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rejoice | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 friend | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 co-operation | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 J. | punct |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 J. | nmod:desc |
| 16 | J. | J. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 co-operation | appos |
| 17 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 J. | flat |
| 18 | Batten | Batten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 J. | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 giving | punct |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 giving | mark |
| 21 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rejoice | advcl |
| 22 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 giving | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 creations | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 creations | det |
| 25 | creations | creation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 giving | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 fancy | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fancy | det |
| 28 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fancy | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 folk | punct |
| 30 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 creations | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | again | lastly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rejoice | to-infinitive | I not said here | the co-operation of my friend | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | I not said here | form | the creations of the folk fancy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent form=Theme to creation=Recipient | |||
| 4 | create | the folk fancy | nom creation «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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