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Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 17

_ Pref. xxix.) thinks our tale cannot be older than 1362, because of a reference to one O'Connor Sligo which occurs in all its variants; it is, however, omitted in our somewhat abridged version.

Who acts: Pref, tale, O'Connor, reference, our · What happens: think, not be, occur, be, omit, abridge · To what, where: variants, abridged version · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pref, tale, O'Connor, reference), 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

punctnsubjpunctflat:foreignpunctpunctnmod:possnsubjauxadvmodcopccompcaseoblpunctcasefixeddetoblcasenmodnmod:unmarkedflatnsubjacl:relclcasedet:predetnmod:possoblpunctnsubjconjpunctadvmodpunctconjcasenmod:possadvmodamodoblpunctroot_PUNCTPrefPROPN.PUNCTxxixNOUN.PUNCT)PUNCTthinksVERBourPRONtaleNOUNcanAUXnotPARTbeAUXolderADJthanADP1362NUM,PUNCTbecauseADPofADPaDETreferenceNOUNtoADPoneNUMO'ConnorPROPNSligoPROPNwhichPRONoccursVERBinADPallDETitsPRONvariantsNOUN;PUNCTitPRONisVERB,PUNCThoweverADV,PUNCTomittedVERBinADPourPRONsomewhatADVabridgedVERBversionNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1__PUNCT_2 Prefpunct
2PrefPrefPROPNNumber=Sing7 thinksnsubj
3..PUNCT_2 Prefpunct
4xxixxxixNOUNNumber=Sing2 Prefflat:foreign
5..PUNCT_2 Prefpunct
6))PUNCT_2 Prefpunct
7thinksthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
8ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 talenmod:poss
9taletaleNOUNNumber=Sing13 oldernsubj
10cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin13 olderaux
11notnotPARTPolarity=Neg13 olderadvmod
12bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf13 oldercop
13olderoldADJDegree=Cmp7 thinksccomp
14thanthanADP_15 1362case
1513621362NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card13 olderobl
16,,PUNCT_20 referencepunct
17becausebecauseADPExtPos=ADP20 referencecase
18ofofADP_17 becausefixed
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 referencedet
20referencereferenceNOUNNumber=Sing7 thinksobl
21totoADP_22 onecase
22oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card20 referencenmod
23O'ConnorO'ConnorPROPNNumber=Sing22 onenmod:unmarked
24SligoSligoPROPNNumber=Sing23 O'Connorflat
25whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel26 occursnsubj
26occursoccurVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 O'Connoracl:relcl
27ininADP_30 variantscase
28allallDETPronType=Tot30 variantsdet:predet
29itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 variantsnmod:poss
30variantsvariantNOUNNumber=Plur26 occursobl
31;;PUNCT_33 ispunct
32ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 isnsubj
33isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 thinksconj
34,,PUNCT_37 omittedpunct
35howeverhoweverADV_37 omittedadvmod
36,,PUNCT_37 omittedpunct
37omittedomitVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 thinksconj
38ininADP_42 versioncase
39ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs42 versionnmod:poss
40somewhatsomewhatADV_41 abridgedadvmod
41abridgedabridgeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass42 versionamod
42versionversionNOUNNumber=Sing37 omittedobl
43..PUNCT_7 thinkspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpresentPrefbecause a reference to one O'Connorvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2not iscanour talethan 1362; old propertytree rules
3occurpresentO'Connorreference's variantsvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in variant=Location
4bepresentreferencevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5omitparticiplePref not said hereour abridged versionhowever propertyvn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
6abridgeparticiplesomewhat propertyvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7tellournom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
8varyreferencenom variant «event 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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