Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 1

It may be as well to give the reader some account of the enormous extent of the Celtic folk-tales in existence.

Who acts: It · What happens: be, account, extend · To what, where: enormous extent, Celtic folk tales

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 give	cop
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	7 give	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reader	det
9	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 account	det
11	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 extent	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 extent	det
14	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 extent	amod
15	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 account	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 tales	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tales	det
18	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tales	amod
19	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tales	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 folk	punct
21	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 extent	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 existence	case
23	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tales	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	may	It		give property	tree rules
2	account			the enormous extent of the Celtic folk tales in existence		nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	extend			the Celtic folk tales in existence		nom extent «state 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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