Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 47
Borrow, in his _Wild Wales_, refers to a collection of fables in a journal called _The Greal_, while the _Cambrian Quarterly Magazine_ for 1830 and 1831 contained a few fairy anecdotes, including a curious version of the "Brewery of Eggshells" from the Welsh.
Who acts: you, Cambrian Quarterly Magazine · What happens: borrow, refer, call, contain · To what, where: journal, few fairy anecdotes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Cambrian Quarterly Magazine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borrow | borrow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wales | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Wales | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Wales | nmod:poss |
| 5 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wales | compound |
| 6 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wales | compound |
| 7 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Borrow | vocative |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Borrow | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 refers | punct |
| 10 | refers | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Borrow | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 collection | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 collection | det |
| 13 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 refers | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fables | case |
| 15 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 collection | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 journal | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 journal | det |
| 18 | journal | journal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 refers | obl |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 journal | acl |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Greal | det |
| 22 | Greal | Greal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Greal | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 contained | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 contained | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Magazine | det |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Magazine | punct |
| 28 | Cambrian | Cambrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Magazine | compound |
| 29 | Quarterly | Quarterly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Magazine | compound |
| 30 | Magazine | Magazine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 contained | nsubj |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 1830 | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 1830 | case |
| 33 | 1830 | 1830 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 Magazine | appos |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 1831 | cc |
| 35 | 1831 | 1831 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 1830 | conj |
| 36 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 refers | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 anecdotes | det |
| 38 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 anecdotes | amod |
| 39 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 anecdotes | amod |
| 40 | anecdotes | anecdote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 contained | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 version | punct |
| 42 | including | including | ADP | _ | 45 version | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 version | det |
| 44 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 version | amod |
| 45 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 contained | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Brewery | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Brewery | det |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 Brewery | punct |
| 49 | Brewery | Brewery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 version | nmod |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Eggshells | case |
| 51 | Eggshells | Eggshell | PROPN | Number=Plur | 49 Brewery | nmod |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 Brewery | punct |
| 53 | from | from | ADP | _ | 55 Welsh | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Welsh | det |
| 55 | Welsh | Welsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 version | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Borrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | imperative | you not said here | _'s _ Wild Wales vocative | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | refer | present | a journal | to a collection of fables | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to collection=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a journal not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | contain | past | the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine | a few fairy anecdotes | including a curious version of the Brewery of Eggshells from the Welsh | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anecdote=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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