Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 51

If this Roll is authentic, the popularity of the legend is thrown back into the fifteenth century.

Who acts: Roll · What happens: be, throw back · To what, where: popularity

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 (Roll), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 authentic	mark
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Roll	det
3	Roll	Roll	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 authentic	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 authentic	cop
5	authentic	authentic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thrown	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 authentic	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 popularity	det
8	popularity	popularity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrown	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 legend	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 legend	det
11	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 popularity	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thrown	aux:pass
13	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 thrown	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 century	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 century	det
17	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 century	amod
18	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrown	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	this Roll					authentic property	tree rules
2	throw back	present · passive		the popularity of the legend			century		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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