More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 18
(6) Mr. Macleod's variant communicated through Mr. Nutt to Miss Cox's volume, p. 533; and (7) Curtin, _Myths of Ireland_, pp.
What happens: communicate · To what, where: Nutt
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 6 | punct |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 6 | punct |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Macleod | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Macleod | Macleod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 6 | appos |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Macleod | case |
| 7 | variant | variant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Macleod | conj |
| 8 | communicated | communicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 variant | acl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 Nutt | case |
| 10 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Nutt | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 communicated | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 volume | case |
| 13 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Cox | compound |
| 14 | Cox | Cox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 volume | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Cox | case |
| 16 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 communicated | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 p. | punct |
| 18 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 volume | appos |
| 19 | 533 | 533 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 p. | flat |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 pp | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 pp | cc |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 7 | punct |
| 23 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 pp | nummod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 7 | punct |
| 25 | Curtin | Curtin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Myths | punct |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Myths | punct |
| 28 | Myths | Myths | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 7 | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Ireland | case |
| 30 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Myths | nmod |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 7 | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pp | punct |
| 33 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 6 | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 6 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | communicate | participle | Nutt Mr. | to Miss Cox's volume | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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