Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 7
Perhaps the Eisteddfod, by offering prizes for the collection of Welsh folk-tales, may remove this inferiority.
What happens: offer, remove · To what, where: prizes, inferiority
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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 18 remove | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eisteddfod | det |
| 3 | Eisteddfod | Eisteddfod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Perhaps | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perhaps | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 offering | mark |
| 6 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 remove | advcl |
| 7 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 offering | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 collection | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 collection | det |
| 10 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offering | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tales | case |
| 12 | Welsh | welsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tales | amod |
| 13 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tales | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 folk | punct |
| 15 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 collection | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 offering | punct |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 remove | aux |
| 18 | remove | remove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 inferiority | det |
| 20 | inferiority | inferiority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remove | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 remove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | gerund | prizes | for the collection of Welsh folk tales goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for collection=Goal | ||||
| 2 | remove | may | this inferiority | perhaps property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inferiority=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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