Celtic Fairy Tales, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., sentence 8

But the adventures in these tales are not the "cure by laughing" incident which forms the centre of our tale, and is Indo-European in extent (_cf.

Who acts: adventures, incident, our · What happens: not be, laugh, form, be, tell · To what, where: cure, incident, centre, extent · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, incident, our), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 cure	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 adventures	det
3	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cure	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tales	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 tales	det
6	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 adventures	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cure	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 cure	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cure	det
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cure	punct
11	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 laughing	mark
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cure	advcl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 incident	punct
15	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughing	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 forms	nsubj
17	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 incident	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 centre	det
19	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forms	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 tale	case
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tale	nmod:poss
22	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 centre	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 European	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 European	cc
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 European	cop
26	Indo	Indo	X	_	28 European	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Indo	punct
28	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cure	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 extent	case
30	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 European	obl
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	33 cf	punct
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 cf	punct
33	cf	cf	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 extent	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	the adventures in this tales	the cure			tree rules
2	laugh in a quote	gerund	the adventures in this tales not said here	incident			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	form	present	incident	the centre of our tale			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centre=Theme
4	is	present	the adventures in this tales not said here		extent and cf	european property	tree rules
5	tell		our				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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