Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 69

Mr. Spencer took the legend from Jones (the reference to the date 1205 proves that), enshrined it in his somewhat _banal_ verses, which were lucky enough to be copied into several reading-books, and thus became known to all English-speaking folk.

Who acts: Spencer, date, verses · What happens: take, prove, enshrine, be, copy, become · To what, where: legend, Jones, that, several reading books · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Spencer, date, verses), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Spencer	nmod:desc
2	Spencer	Spencer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 legend	det
5	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Jones	case
7	Jones	Jones	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 reference	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reference	det
10	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 date	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 date	det
13	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proves	nsubj
14	1205	1205	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 date	flat
15	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 proves	obj
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 proves	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 enshrined	punct
19	enshrined	enshrine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 enshrined	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 somewhat	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 somewhat	nmod:poss
23	somewhat	somewhat	X	_	19 enshrined	obj
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 somewhat	punct
25	banal	banal	X	_	23 somewhat	goeswith
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 verses	punct
27	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 enshrined	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lucky	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 lucky	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lucky	cop
31	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 verses	conj
32	enough	enough	ADV	_	31 lucky	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	35 copied	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 copied	aux:pass
35	copied	copy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 lucky	xcomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	40 books	case
37	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 books	amod
38	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 books	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 reading	punct
40	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 copied	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 became	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 became	cc
43	thus	thus	ADV	_	44 became	advmod
44	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
45	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 became	xcomp
46	to	to	ADP	_	51 folk	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 folk	det
48	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 speaking	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 English	punct
50	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 folk	amod
51	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 known	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Spencer Mr.	the legend	Jones	the reference obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent legend=Theme from jones=Initial_Location
2	prove	present	the date	that			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	enshrine	past	Spencer Mr. not said here	legend			tree rules
4	is	past	verses			enough, lucky property	tree rules
5	copy	to-infinitive · passive	verses not said here		several reading books		vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into book=Destination
6	become	past	Spencer Mr. not said here			thus property	tree rules
7	know	participle	Spencer Mr. not said here			to all speaking folk	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	speak speech: other	gerund					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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