More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 57
This is a specifically Celtic formula, and would seem therefore to claim Cinderella for the Celts.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, seem, claim · To what, where: Celtic formula, Cinderella
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 formula | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 formula | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 formula | det |
| 4 | specifically | specifically | ADV | _ | 5 Celtic | advmod |
| 5 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 formula | amod |
| 6 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seem | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seem | cc |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 seem | aux |
| 10 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 formula | parataxis |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 10 seem | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 claim | mark |
| 13 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seem | xcomp |
| 14 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 claim | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Celts | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Celts | det |
| 17 | Celts | Celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 claim | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 formula | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a Celtic formula | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | would | therefore property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | claim speech: other | to-infinitive | Cinderella | for the Celts | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cinderella=Topic |
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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