Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 8
The collection of Celtic folk-tales began in IRELAND as early as 1825, with T. Crofton Croker's _Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland_.
Who acts: collection · What happens: begin · To what, where: IRELAND
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 (collection), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 collection | det |
| 2 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tales | case |
| 4 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tales | amod |
| 5 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tales | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 folk | punct |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 collection | nmod |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 IRELAND | case |
| 10 | IRELAND | IRELAND | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 early | advmod |
| 12 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 1825 | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 1825 | case |
| 14 | 1825 | 1825 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 began | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Legends | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Legends | case |
| 17 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Crofton | compound |
| 18 | Crofton | Crofton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Croker | compound |
| 19 | Croker | Croker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Legends | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Croker | case |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Legends | punct |
| 22 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Legends | compound |
| 23 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 began | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Traditions | cc |
| 25 | Traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Legends | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 South | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 South | det |
| 28 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Traditions | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Ireland | case |
| 30 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 South | nmod |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Legends | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the collection of Celtic folk tales | IRELAND | as 1825 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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