Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 14

With reference to our present tale, he comes to the conclusion, if I understand him aright, that the lake-maiden was once regarded as a local divinity.

Who acts: Mr., I, our · What happens: come, understand, regard, tell · To what, where: conclusion, Mr., lake maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr., I, our), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 tale	case
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tale	nmod:poss
5	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tale	amod
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 conclusion	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 conclusion	det
12	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 understand	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 understand	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 understand	nsubj
16	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comes	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 understand	obj
18	aright	aright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 understand	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 regarded	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 regarded	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 maiden	det
22	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 maiden	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 lake	punct
24	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 regarded	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 regarded	aux:pass
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 regarded	advmod
27	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 comes	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 divinity	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 divinity	det
30	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 divinity	amod
31	divinity	divinity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 regarded	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Mr.		the conclusion	with reference to our present tale	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location
2	understand a condition, not said to happen	present	I	Mr.		aright property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	regard	past · passive		the lake maiden		as a local divinity; once property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as divinity=Value
4	tell		our				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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