Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 74
For all these reasons, then, Celtic folk-tales are of high scientific interest to the folk-lorist, while they yield to none in imaginative and literary qualities.
Who acts: Celtic folk tales, tales · What happens: be, yield · To what, where: imaginative qualities
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 (Celtic folk tales, tales), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 reasons | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 reasons | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 reasons | det |
| 4 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reasons | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 interest | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 then | punct |
| 8 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 folk | punct |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 interest | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 interest | cop |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 interest | case |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 interest | amod |
| 15 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 interest | amod |
| 16 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reasons | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 lorist | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lorist | det |
| 19 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lorist | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 folk | punct |
| 21 | lorist | lorist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 interest | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 yield | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 yield | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 yield | nsubj |
| 25 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 interest | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 none | case |
| 27 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 25 yield | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 qualities | case |
| 29 | imaginative | imaginative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 qualities | amod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 literary | cc |
| 31 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 imaginative | conj |
| 32 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 yield | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 interest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Celtic folk tales | then | of high scientific interest; to the folk lorist | tree rules | |||
| 2 | yield | present | tales = tale | imaginative qualities | to none | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to none=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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