Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 18

It is to be observed that one of the earliest popular drolls in Europe, _Unibos_, a Latin poem of the eleventh, and perhaps the tenth, century, has the main outlines of the story, the fraudulent sale of worthless objects and the escape from the sack trick.

Who acts: earliest popular, Unibos · What happens: observe, droll, have · To what, where: incident, Europe, main outlines

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earliest popular, Unibos), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 observed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 observed	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 observed	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 observed	aux:pass
5	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 one	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 observed	obj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 drolls	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 popular	det
10	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 popular	amod
11	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 drolls	nsubj
12	drolls	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Europe	case
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 drolls	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 has	punct
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 has	punct
17	Unibos	Unibos	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 has	nsubj
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 Unibos	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 poem	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 poem	det
21	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 poem	amod
22	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Unibos	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 eleventh	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eleventh	det
25	eleventh	eleventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poem	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tenth	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tenth	cc
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	30 tenth	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tenth	det
30	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Unibos	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 century	punct
32	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tenth	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Unibos	punct
34	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 drolls	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 outlines	det
36	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 outlines	amod
37	outlines	outline	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 has	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 story	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 story	det
40	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 outlines	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sale	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sale	det
43	fraudulent	fraudulent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 sale	amod
44	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 outlines	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 objects	case
46	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 objects	amod
47	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 sale	nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 escape	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 escape	det
50	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sale	conj
51	from	from	ADP	_	54 trick	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 trick	det
53	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 trick	compound
54	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 escape	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	observe	present · passive		incident		tree rules
2	droll	present	the earliest popular		Europe	tree rules
3	have	present	Unibos	the main outlines of the story and the fraudulent sale of worthless objects and the escape from the sack trick		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outline=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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