Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 19
_ Campbell, _The Fians_, Introd. xix.) thinks that this does not prevent a still earlier version having existed.
Who acts: _, this, earlier version · What happens: think, not prevent, have, exist · To what, where: earlier 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 (_, this, earlier version), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fians | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fians | det |
| 6 | Fians | Fian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 _ | appos |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fians | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Introd | punct |
| 9 | Introd | Introd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | appos |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Introd | punct |
| 11 | xix | xix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Introd | flat:foreign |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Introd | punct |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Introd | punct |
| 14 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 prevent | mark |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 prevent | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 prevent | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 prevent | advmod |
| 19 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thinks | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 version | det |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 earlier | advmod |
| 22 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 version | amod |
| 23 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prevent | obj |
| 24 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 version | acl |
| 25 | existed | exist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 having | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | _ | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not prevent | present · do-support | this | a earlier version | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer version=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | a earlier version not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | exist | participle | a earlier version not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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