Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 43

Thanks to Mr. Nutt, Scotland is just now to the fore in the collection and study of the British Folk-Tale.

Who acts: Thanks · What happens: be, study · To what, where: collection, British Folk Tale

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 (Thanks), 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	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fore	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 Nutt	case
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nutt	nmod:desc
4	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Thanks	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Scotland	punct
6	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nutt	nmod:unmarked
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fore	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 now	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 fore	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 fore	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fore	det
12	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 collection	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 collection	det
15	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fore	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 study	cc
17	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fore	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	23 Tale	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Tale	det
20	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Tale	amod
21	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Tale	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Folk	punct
23	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 study	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Thanks to Nutt Mr. Scotland			the collection	now	to the fore and study of the British Folk Tale	tree rules
2	study			the British Folk Tale					nom study «act 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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