Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 1
Up in the Black Mountains in Caermarthenshire lies the lake known as Lyn y Van Vach.
What happens: lie, know · To what, where: lake
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 8 lies | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Mountains | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mountains | det |
| 4 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mountains | compound |
| 5 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Up | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Caermarthenshire | case |
| 7 | Caermarthenshire | Caermarthenshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mountains | nmod |
| 8 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lies | obj |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lake | acl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Vach | case |
| 13 | Lyn | Lyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 y | compound |
| 14 | y | y | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Van | compound |
| 15 | Van | Van | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Vach | compound |
| 16 | Vach | Vach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 known | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the lake | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lake=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | participle | the lake not said here | as Van Vach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as vach=Attribute |
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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