Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIII. Andrew Coffey., sentence 5

_Remarks_.--No collection of Celtic Folk-Tales would be representative that did not contain some specimen of the gruesome.

Who acts: Remarks · What happens: be, not contain · To what, where: specimen

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Andrew Coffey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remarks), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 representative	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 collection	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	6 collection	punct
5	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 collection	det
6	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Remarks	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 Tales	case
8	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Tales	amod
9	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Tales	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Folk	punct
11	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 collection	nmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 representative	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 representative	cop
14	representative	representative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 contain	mark
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 contain	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 contain	advmod
18	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 representative	advcl
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 specimen	det
20	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 contain	obj
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 gruesome	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gruesome	det
23	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 specimen	acl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 representative	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Remarks and no collection of Celtic Folk Tales					representative property	tree rules
2	not contain	past · do-support	Remarks and no collection of Celtic Folk Tales not said here	some specimen					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot specimen=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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