Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 42

But what is impossible, in my opinion, is that such an event should have independently been used in different places as the typical instance of, and warning against, rash action.

Who acts: my · What happens: be, use, opine, instance · To what, where: event, different places, warning

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 impossible	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 impossible	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	cop
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 opinion	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 opinion	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 opinion	nmod:poss
8	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 impossible	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 opinion	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 used	mark
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 event	det:predet
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 event	det
14	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 used	nsubj:pass
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 used	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 used	aux
17	independently	independently	ADV	_	19 used	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 used	aux:pass
19	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 impossible	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 places	case
21	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 places	amod
22	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 used	obl
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 instance	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 instance	det
25	typical	typical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 instance	amod
26	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 places	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 warning	case
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 warning	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 warning	cc
30	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 instance	nmod
31	against	against	ADP	_	34 action	case
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 action	punct
33	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 action	compound
34	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 warning	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				impossible property	tree rules
2	use	should · perfect · passive		such event	different places as the typical instance of warning against rash action	independently property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	opine		my				nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
4	instance			warning against rash action			nom instance «event 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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