Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 9

This contained some 38 anecdotes of the first class mentioned above, anecdotes showing the belief of the Irish peasantry in the existence of fairies, gnomes, goblins, and the like.

Who acts: This, anecdotes, fairies · What happens: contain, mention, show, believe, exist · To what, where: 38 anecdotes, first class, belief, Irish peasantry

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 (This, anecdotes, fairies), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 contained	nsubj
2	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 anecdotes	det
4	38	38	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 anecdotes	nummod
5	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 contained	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 class	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 class	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 class	amod
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anecdotes	nmod
10	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 class	acl
11	above	above	ADV	_	10 mentioned	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 anecdotes	punct
13	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 anecdotes	conj
14	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 anecdotes	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 belief	det
16	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 showing	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 peasantry	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 peasantry	det
19	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 peasantry	amod
20	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 belief	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 existence	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 existence	det
23	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 peasantry	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 fairies	case
25	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 existence	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gnomes	punct
27	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fairies	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 goblins	punct
29	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fairies	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 like	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 like	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 like	det
33	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 contained	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	contain	past	This	some 38 anecdotes of the first class and anecdotes		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anecdote=Theme
2	mention speech: other	participle		the first class not said here	above property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	show	gerund	anecdotes not said here	the belief of the Irish peasantry in the existence of fairies and gnomes and goblins		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent belief=Recipient
4	believe			the Irish peasantry in the existence of fairies and gnomes and goblins		nom belief «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	exist		fairies and gnomes and goblins			nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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