Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 20

I should have thought that the existence of so distinctly Eastern a trick in the tale, and the fact that it is a framework story (another Eastern characteristic), would imply that it is a rather late importation, with local allusions superadded (_cf.

Who acts: I, fact, local allusions, trick · What happens: think, be, imply, superadd, exist · To what, where: existence, framework story, late importation, cf · 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 (I, fact, local allusions, trick), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	aux
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 existence	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 existence	det
7	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 trick	case
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 distinctly	advmod
10	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	13 trick	advmod
11	Eastern	eastern	ADP	_	13 trick	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 trick	det
13	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 existence	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 tale	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tale	det
16	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trick	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 imply	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 imply	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fact	det
20	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 imply	nsubj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 story	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 story	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 story	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 story	det
25	framework	framework	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 story	compound
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fact	acl
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 characteristic	punct
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 characteristic	det
29	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 characteristic	amod
30	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 story	appos
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 characteristic	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fact	punct
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 imply	aux
34	imply	imply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 importation	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 importation	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 importation	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 importation	det
39	rather	rather	ADV	_	40 late	advmod
40	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 importation	amod
41	importation	importation	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 imply	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 allusions	punct
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 allusions	case
44	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 allusions	amod
45	allusions	allusion	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 importation	conj
46	superadded	superadd	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 allusions	acl
47	(	(	PUNCT	_	49 cf	punct
48	_	_	PUNCT	_	49 cf	punct
49	cf	cf	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 superadded	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	should · perfect	I	the existence of a trick in the tale	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a	present	fact	a framework story	tree rules
3	imply	would	the fact		vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
4	is a	present	fact	a late importation and local allusions	tree rules
5	superadd	participle	local allusions not said here	cf	tree rules
6	exist		a trick in the tale		nom existence «state intransitive»: of=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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