Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 69
Care, however, has to be taken in using folk-tales as evidence for primitive practice among the nations where they are found.
Who acts: Care · What happens: have, take, use, find · To what, where: folk tales, 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 (Care), 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 | Care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Care | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 has | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 taken | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 has | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 using | mark |
| 10 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 taken | advcl |
| 11 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tales | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 folk | punct |
| 13 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 using | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 evidence | case |
| 15 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 using | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 practice | case |
| 17 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 practice | amod |
| 18 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 evidence | nmod |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 nations | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 nations | det |
| 21 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 using | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 found | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 nations | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Care | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive · passive | Care not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | use | gerund | Care not said here | folk tales | as evidence for primitive practice; among the nations | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tale=Duration as evidence=Attribute | |||
| 4 | find | present · passive | tales = tale | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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