Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 81

Under these circumstances it is not impossible, I think, that the earlier legend of the marvellous run of "Cylart" from Carnarvon was due to the etymologising fancy of some English-speaking Welshman who interpreted the name as Killhart, so that the simpler legend would be only a folk-etymology.

Who acts: I, earlier legend, etymologising fancy, simpler legend · What happens: not be, think, etymologis, be, speak, interpret · To what, where: circumstances, name, folk etymology, Cylart · 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 (I, earlier legend, etymologising fancy, simpler legend), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 circumstances	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 circumstances	det
3	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 impossible	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 impossible	expl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 impossible	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 impossible	advmod
7	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 think	nsubj
10	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 impossible	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fancy	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 fancy	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 legend	det
14	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 legend	amod
15	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fancy	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 run	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 run	det
18	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 run	amod
19	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 legend	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Cylart	case
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Cylart	punct
22	Cylart	Cylart	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 run	nmod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Cylart	punct
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 Carnarvon	case
25	Carnarvon	Carnarvon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Cylart	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fancy	cop
27	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	31 fancy	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	27 due	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fancy	det
30	etymologising	etymologis	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 fancy	amod
31	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 think	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	37 Welshman	case
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 Welshman	det
34	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 speaking	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 English	punct
36	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 Welshman	amod
37	Welshman	Welshman	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 fancy	nmod
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 interpreted	nsubj
39	interpreted	interpret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fancy	acl:relcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 name	det
41	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 interpreted	obj
42	as	as	ADP	_	43 Killhart	case
43	Killhart	Killhart	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 interpreted	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 etymology	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	56 etymology	advmod
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 etymology	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 legend	det
48	simpler	simple	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	49 legend	amod
49	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 etymology	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 etymology	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 etymology	cop
52	only	only	ADV	_	56 etymology	advmod
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 etymology	det
54	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 etymology	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 folk	punct
56	etymology	etymology	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 interpreted	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present			this circumstances	impossible property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	etymologis	gerund					tree rules
4	is	past	the earlier legend of the marvellous run of Cylart from Carnarvon			due the etymologising fancy; of some speaking Welshman	tree rules
5	speak speech: other	gerund					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	interpret	past	the etymologising fancy	the name		as Killhart	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme as killhart=Attribute
7	is a	would	the simpler legend	a folk etymology			tree rules
8	run			Cylart from Carnarvon			nom run «act 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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