Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 26
It is indeed impossible to think these are disconnected, and for drolls of this kind a good case has been made out for the borrowing hypotheses by M. Cosquin and Mr. Clouston.
What happens: be, think, disconnect, make out · To what, where: these, good case · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | 4 impossible | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 impossible | cop |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 impossible | advmod |
| 4 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 impossible | csubj |
| 7 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 disconnected | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 disconnected | aux:pass |
| 9 | disconnected | disconnect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 think | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 drolls | case |
| 13 | drolls | droll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 kind | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 kind | det |
| 16 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drolls | nmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 case | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 case | amod |
| 19 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 impossible | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 made | compound:prt |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 hypotheses | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hypotheses | det |
| 26 | borrowing | borrowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hypotheses | compound |
| 27 | hypotheses | hypothesis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 M. | case |
| 29 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 hypotheses | nmod |
| 30 | Cosquin | Cosquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 M. | flat |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Clouston | cc |
| 32 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Clouston | nmod:desc |
| 33 | Clouston | Clouston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 M. | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | impossible, indeed property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | disconnect | present · passive | these | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make out | present · perfect · passive | a good case | for drolls of this kind; for the borrowing hypotheses by M. and Clouston Mr. | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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