Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 45
The fable indeed, from this point of view, seems greatly to have attracted the Welsh mind, perhaps as of especial value to a proverbially impetuous temperament.
Who acts: fable · What happens: seem, attract, point · To what, where: Welsh mind, view
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 (fable), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fable | det |
| 2 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 fable | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 point | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 point | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 point | det |
| 7 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fable | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 view | case |
| 9 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 point | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fable | punct |
| 11 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 11 seems | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 attracted | mark |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 attracted | aux |
| 15 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 seems | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mind | det |
| 17 | Welsh | welsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mind | amod |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attracted | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 value | punct |
| 20 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 24 value | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 24 value | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | especial | especial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 value | amod |
| 24 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seems | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 temperament | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 temperament | det |
| 27 | proverbially | proverbially | ADV | _ | 28 impetuous | advmod |
| 28 | impetuous | impetuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 temperament | amod |
| 29 | temperament | temperament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 value | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the fable | greatly property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attract | to-infinitive · perfect | the fable not said here | the Welsh mind | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | point | view | nom point «cognition 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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