Celtic Fairy Tales, II. Guleesh., sentence 3
One is curious to know how far the very beautiful landscapes in the story are due to Dr. Hyde, who confesses to have only taken notes.
Who acts: One, beautiful landscapes, Hyde · What happens: be, know, confess, have, take · To what, where: taken notes
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Guleesh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, beautiful landscapes, Hyde), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 curious | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 curious | cop |
| 3 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 curious | csubj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 know | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 landscapes | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 landscapes | amod |
| 11 | landscapes | landscape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Hyde | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 landscapes | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Hyde | cop |
| 16 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 Hyde | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 due | fixed |
| 18 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Hyde | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Hyde | Hyde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 far | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 confesses | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 confesses | nsubj |
| 22 | confesses | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Hyde | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 confesses | xcomp |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 taken | advmod |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 notes | amod |
| 27 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the beautiful landscapes in the story | due Hyde; Dr. nmod:desc | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | confess | present | Hyde | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | Hyde not said here | taken notes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Patient | ||||
| 6 | take | participle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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