Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 14

The Irish Grimm, however, was Patrick Kennedy, a Dublin bookseller, who believed in fairies, and in five years (1866- 71) printed about 100 folk- and hero-tales and drolls (classes 2, 3, and 4 above) in his _Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts_, 1866, _Fireside Stories of Ireland_, 1870, and _Bardic Stories of Ireland_, 1871; all three are now unfortunately out of print.

Who acts: Dublin bookseller, Irish Grimm, three · What happens: be, believe, print, droll · To what, where: Patrick, 100 folk, classes, Legendary Fictions, print

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 (Dublin bookseller, Irish Grimm, three), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Grimm	det
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Grimm	amod
3	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 printed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Grimm	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	29 printed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Patrick	cop
8	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 printed	nsubj
9	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Patrick	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bookseller	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bookseller	det
12	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bookseller	compound
13	bookseller	bookseller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Patrick	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 believed	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 believed	nsubj
16	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bookseller	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 fairies	case
18	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 believed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 years	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 years	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 years	case
22	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 printed	nsubj
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 1866	punct
25	1866	1866	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 years	appos
26	-	-	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	27 71	case
27	71	71	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 1866	nmod
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 1866	punct
29	printed	print	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	about	about	ADV	_	31 100	advmod
31	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 folk	nummod
32	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 printed	obj
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 folk	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tales	cc
35	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tales	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 hero	punct
37	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 folk	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 drolls	cc
39	drolls	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 printed	conj
40	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 classes	punct
41	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 drolls	obj
42	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	41 classes	flat
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 3	punct
44	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	42 2	flat
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 above	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 above	cc
47	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	48 above	nummod
48	above	above	ADV	_	39 drolls	advmod
49	)	)	PUNCT	_	48 above	punct
50	in	in	ADP	_	54 Fictions	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 Fictions	nmod:poss
52	_	_	PUNCT	_	54 Fictions	punct
53	Legendary	legendary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Fictions	amod
54	Fictions	fiction	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 drolls	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 Celts	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Celts	det
57	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 Celts	amod
58	Celts	Celt	PROPN	Number=Plur	54 Fictions	nmod
59	_	_	PUNCT	_	58 Celts	punct
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 1866	punct
61	1866	1866	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	58 Celts	flat
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 Stories	punct
63	_	_	PUNCT	_	65 Stories	punct
64	Fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 Stories	compound
65	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 Celts	conj
66	of	of	ADP	_	67 Ireland	case
67	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 Stories	nmod
68	_	_	PUNCT	_	58 Celts	punct
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 1870	punct
70	1870	1870	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	58 Celts	flat
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 Stories	punct
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 Stories	cc
73	_	_	PUNCT	_	75 Stories	punct
74	Bardic	bardic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 Stories	amod
75	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 drolls	parataxis
76	of	of	ADP	_	77 Ireland	case
77	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	75 Stories	nmod
78	_	_	PUNCT	_	75 Stories	punct
79	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 1871	punct
80	1871	1871	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	75 Stories	parataxis
81	;	;	PUNCT	_	89 print	punct
82	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	83 three	det
83	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	89 print	nsubj
84	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	89 print	cop
85	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	89 print	advmod
86	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	89 print	advmod
87	out	out	ADP	_	89 print	case
88	of	of	ADP	_	89 print	case
89	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 printed	obl
90	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 printed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Patrick				tree rules
2	believe	past	a Dublin bookseller				in fairies	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	print	past	the Irish Grimm	100 folk and hero tales			however property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme
4	droll	present	the Irish Grimm not said here	classes	Patrick's Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts and Fireside Stories of Ireland		above property	tree rules
5	is	present	all three		print	now	unfortunately property	tree rules

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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