Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 75

Gold and silver, and each thing more precious than another, in the crone's castle.

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. 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	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 precious	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 silver	cc
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gold	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 precious	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 precious	cc
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 thing	det
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 precious	nsubj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 precious	advmod
9	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 another	case
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 precious	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 castle	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crone	det
15	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 castle	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 crone	case
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 precious	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 precious	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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