Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 31

This would seem to trace our story back to the seventh or eighth century and certainly to the thirteenth.

Who acts: This · What happens: seem, trace back · To what, where: story

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 seem	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 seem	aux
3	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 trace	mark
5	trace	trace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seem	xcomp
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 story	nmod:poss
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trace	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 trace	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 century	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 century	det
11	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 century	amod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 eighth	cc
13	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seventh	conj
14	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trace	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thirteenth	cc
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	19 thirteenth	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 thirteenth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thirteenth	det
19	thirteenth	thirteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 century	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	would	This						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	trace back	to-infinitive	This not said here	our story			century		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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