Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 50

Hunt's _Drolls from the West of England_ has nothing distinctively Celtic, and it is only by a chance Lhuyd chose a folk-tale as his specimen of Cornish in his _Archaeologia Britannica_, 1709 (see _Tale of Ivan_).

Who acts: _, Hunt, Lhuyd · What happens: droll, have, be, choose, see · To what, where: West, nothing, folk tale, Archaeologia, 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 (_, Hunt, Lhuyd), 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	Hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 _	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hunt	case
3	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Drolls	nsubj
4	Drolls	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 West	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 West	det
7	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Drolls	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 England	case
9	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 West	nmod
10	_	_	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 West	acl:relcl
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 has	obj
13	distinctively	distinctively	ADV	_	14 Celtic	advmod
14	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nothing	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 chance	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 chance	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 chance	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 chance	cop
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 chance	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 chance	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 chance	det
22	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chose	obl
23	Lhuyd	Lhuyd	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 chose	nsubj
24	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Drolls	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tale	det
26	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tale	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 folk	punct
28	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chose	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 specimen	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 specimen	nmod:poss
31	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chose	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Cornish	case
33	Cornish	Cornish	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 specimen	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 Archaeologia	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 Archaeologia	nmod:poss
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 Archaeologia	punct
37	Archaeologia	Archaeologia	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 chose	obl
38	Britannica	Britannica	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Archaeologia	flat
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 Archaeologia	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 1709	punct
41	1709	1709	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 Archaeologia	flat
42	(	(	PUNCT	_	43 see	punct
43	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 Archaeologia	appos
44	_	_	PUNCT	_	45 Tale	punct
45	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 see	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 Ivan	case
47	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Tale	nmod
48	_	_	PUNCT	_	43 see	punct
49	)	)	PUNCT	_	43 see	punct
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Drolls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	droll	present	Hunt's _		the West of England		tree rules
2	have	present	_	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	is	present	Hunt			by a chance	tree rules
4	choose	past	Lhuyd	a folk tale	_'s Archaeologia	as _'s specimen of Cornish	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
5	see	infinitive		Tale of Ivan			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus

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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