Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 31

If there's any virtue in an herb at all, it ought to be in such a strange one as this."

Who acts: virtue · What happens: be · To what, where: herb

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (virtue), 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	_	3 's	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ought	advcl
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 virtue	det
5	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 's	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 herb	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 herb	det
8	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 's	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 herb	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ought	nsubj
13	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 one	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	20 one	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 one	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 one	case
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 one	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 one	det
19	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	amod
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 one	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	present	any virtue			a herb at all; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in herb=Location
2	is	ought						in such strange one; as this	tree rules

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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