Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 58
The present volume attempts to begin the pleasant captivity from the earliest years.
Who acts: present volume · What happens: attempt, begin · To what, where: pleasant captivity
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 (present volume), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:64): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 volume | det |
| 2 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 volume | amod |
| 3 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attempts | nsubj |
| 4 | attempts | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 begin | mark |
| 6 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 attempts | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 captivity | det |
| 8 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 captivity | amod |
| 9 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begin | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 years | det |
| 12 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 years | amod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 begin | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attempts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | present | the present volume | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | begin not said to happen | to-infinitive | the present volume not said here | the pleasant captivity | year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captivity=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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