More English Fairy Tales, L. the Three Feathers, sentence 11
The incident occurs in some versions of the "Battle of the Birds" story (_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. xxiv.), and considering the wide spread of this in the British Isles, it was possibly from this source that it came to Deptford.
Who acts: incident · What happens: occur, consider, be, come, spread · To what, where: versions, wide spread, British Isles, source, Deptford, this
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incident), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 incident | det |
| 2 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 versions | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 versions | det |
| 6 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 occurs | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Battle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Battle | det |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Battle | punct |
| 10 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 versions | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Birds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Birds | det |
| 13 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 story | nmod:poss |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Birds | punct |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Battle | appos |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tales | punct |
| 17 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 20 Tales | case |
| 18 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Tales | amod |
| 19 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Tales | compound |
| 20 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Battle | appos |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tales | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 xxiv | punct |
| 23 | No. | no. | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 xxiv | det |
| 24 | xxiv | xxiv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Tales | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tales | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tales | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 considering | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 considering | cc |
| 29 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 occurs | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 spread | det |
| 31 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 spread | amod |
| 32 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 considering | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 this | case |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 spread | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Isles | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Isles | det |
| 37 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Isles | amod |
| 38 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 considering | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 source | punct |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 source | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 source | cop |
| 42 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 45 source | advmod |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 source | case |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 source | det |
| 45 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occurs | parataxis |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 came | mark |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 came | nsubj |
| 48 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 source | advcl |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 Deptford | case |
| 50 | Deptford | Deptford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 came | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | the incident | some versions of the Battle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in version=Location | ||||
| 2 | consider | gerund | the incident not said here | the wide spread of this | the British Isles | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent spread=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is | past | incident | this source | possibly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | past | incident | Deptford | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to deptford=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | spread | this | nom spread «event 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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