Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 26
The stories collected in this volume are longer and more detailed than the English ones I brought together last Christmas.
Who acts: stories, I · What happens: collect, be, bring together · To what, where: stories, volume, last Christmas
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:25): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 longer | nsubj |
| 3 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stories | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 volume | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 volume | det |
| 6 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collected | obl |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 longer | cop |
| 8 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 detailed | cc |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 detailed | advmod |
| 11 | detailed | detailed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 longer | conj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 ones | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ones | det |
| 14 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ones | amod |
| 15 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 longer | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ones | acl:relcl |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Christmas | amod |
| 20 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 longer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | participle | the stories not said here | this volume | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the stories | than the English ones; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the stories not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | bring together | past | I | last Christmas | together property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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