Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 1
At the time when the Tuatha De Dannan held the sovereignty of Ireland, there reigned in Leinster a king, who was remarkably fond of hearing stories.
Who acts: Tuatha Dannan, king · What happens: hold, reign, be · To what, where: sovereignty, king, Leinster
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuatha Dannan, king), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 held | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dannan | det |
| 6 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Dannan | compound |
| 7 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tuatha | flat |
| 8 | Dannan | Dannan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 held | nsubj |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sovereignty | det |
| 11 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ireland | case |
| 13 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sovereignty | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reigned | punct |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 reigned | advmod |
| 16 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 held | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Leinster | case |
| 18 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 reigned | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reigned | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fond | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 fond | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 fond | cop |
| 24 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | _ | 25 fond | advmod |
| 25 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 king | acl:relcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 stories | case |
| 27 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stories | compound |
| 28 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fond | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the Tuatha Dannan | the sovereignty of Ireland | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Theme | |||
| 2 | reign | participle | the Tuatha Dannan not said here | a king | Leinster; there | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | a king | of hearing stories; fond, remarkably property | tree rules |
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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