Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 28

This is a type of Celtic folk-tales which are European in spread, have analogies with the East, and can only be said to be Celtic by adoption and by colouring.

Who acts: This, Celtic folk tales · What happens: be, have, say, colour · To what, where: type, spread, analogies · 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: who acts (This, Celtic folk tales), 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	4 type	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 type	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 type	det
4	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 tales	case
6	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tales	amod
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tales	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 folk	punct
9	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 type	nmod
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 European	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 European	cop
12	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tales	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 spread	case
14	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 European	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 type	parataxis
17	analogies	analogy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 East	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 East	det
20	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 analogies	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 said	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 said	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	aux:pass
26	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 have	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 Celtic	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 Celtic	cop
29	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	xcomp
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 adoption	case
31	adoption	adoption	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Celtic	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 colouring	cc
33	by	by	SCONJ	_	34 colouring	mark
34	colouring	colour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 Celtic	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 type	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a type		of Celtic folk tales	tree rules
2	is	present	Celtic folk tales		spread	european property	tree rules
3	have	present		analogies		with the East	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent analogy=Patient
4	say speech: assert	can · passive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»
5	is	to-infinitive				by adoption; celtic property	tree rules
6	colour	gerund					tree rules

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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