Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 9
In making my selection I have chiefly tried to make the stories characteristic.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: make, try, select · To what, where: selection, stories characteristic
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, my), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 making | mark |
| 2 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 selection | nmod:poss |
| 4 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 making | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tried | aux |
| 7 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 8 tried | advmod |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 making | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 characteristic | det |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 characteristic | compound |
| 13 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | my selection | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset selection=Product | |||||
| 2 | try | present · perfect | I | chiefly property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the stories characteristic | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset characteristic=Product | ||||
| 4 | select | my | nom selection «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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