Celtic Fairy Tales, X. Munachar and Manachar., sentence 15

This is ingenious, but fails to give any reasonable account of the diffusion of the jingle in countries which have had no historic connection with classical Greece.

Who acts: This, countries · What happens: be, fail, not give, have, account, diffuse · To what, where: reasonable account, historic connection, diffusion, jingle

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. Munachar and Manachar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, countries), 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	3 ingenious	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ingenious	cop
3	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fails	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 fails	cc
6	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ingenious	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fails	xcomp
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 account	det
10	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 account	amod
11	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 diffusion	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 diffusion	det
14	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 account	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 jingle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 jingle	det
17	jingle	jingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 diffusion	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 countries	case
19	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 jingle	nmod
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 had	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 had	aux
22	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 countries	acl:relcl
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 connection	det
24	historic	historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 connection	amod
25	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 Greece	case
27	classical	classical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Greece	amod
28	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 connection	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ingenious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	This		ingenious property	tree rules
2	fail	present				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	not give	to-infinitive		any reasonable account of the diffusion of the jingle in countries		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
4	have	present · perfect	countries	no historic connection	with classical Greece	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Patient
5	account			the diffusion of the jingle in countries		nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	diffuse			the jingle in countries		nom diffusion «process transitive»: of=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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