Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 81
Nor have I attempted to deal with the more general aspects of the study of the Celtic folk-tale.
Who acts: I · What happens: attempt, deal, study · To what, where: Celtic folk 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 (I), 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 | Nor | nor | INTJ | _ | 4 attempted | discourse |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 attempted | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 attempted | nsubj |
| 4 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 deal | mark |
| 6 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 attempted | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 aspects | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 aspects | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 aspects | amod |
| 10 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 aspects | amod |
| 11 | aspects | aspect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deal | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 study | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 study | det |
| 14 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aspects | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tale | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tale | det |
| 17 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tale | amod |
| 18 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tale | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 folk | punct |
| 20 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 study | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | present · perfect | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | deal not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | with the more general aspects of the study of the Celtic folk tale | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with aspect=Theme | ||||
| 3 | study | the Celtic folk tale | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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