Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 4

(referred to by Campbell in his Gaelic list, at end of vol. iv.); Mrs. John Faed, I am informed by a friend, knows the Gaelic version, as told by her nurse in her youth.

Who acts: friend, Campbell · What happens: refer, inform, know, tell, list · To what, where: Gaelic list, I, Gaelic version, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, Campbell), 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	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 referred	punct
2	referred	refer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 informed	advcl
3	to	to	ADP	_	2 referred	obl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Campbell	case
5	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 referred	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 list	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 list	nmod:poss
8	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 list	amod
9	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 referred	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 end	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 referred	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 iv	case
14	vol.	vol.	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 iv	compound
15	iv	iv	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 referred	punct
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 referred	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 John	punct
19	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 John	compound
20	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 referred	obl:agent
21	Faed	Faed	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 John	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 referred	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 informed	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 informed	aux:pass
25	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 friend	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 friend	det
28	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 informed	obl:agent
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knows	punct
30	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 informed	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 version	det
32	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 version	amod
33	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knows	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 told	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 told	mark
36	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 knows	conj
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 nurse	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 nurse	nmod:poss
39	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 told	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 youth	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 youth	nmod:poss
42	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 told	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refer	participle	a friend not said here		Campbell's Gaelic list	at end of vol. iv	by Campbell	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
2	inform speech: other	present · passive	a friend	I				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
3	know	present		the Gaelic version				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer version=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	participle			friend's youth		by friend's nurse	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	list		Campbell					nom list «communication transitive»: 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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