Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 140
Under the breast-fin of the whale is a reddish-brown spot.
What happens: be · To what, where: brown spot, breast fin
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 5 fin | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fin | det |
| 3 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fin | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 breast | punct |
| 5 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spot | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 whale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 whale | det |
| 8 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fin | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spot | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spot | det |
| 11 | reddish | reddish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brown | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 reddish | punct |
| 13 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spot | amod |
| 14 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 spot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a brown spot | the breast fin of the whale | 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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