Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 50
Of course they were not so good; for the like of those robes could not be found in Erin.
Who acts: rest · What happens: not be, not find · To what, where: Erin
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: who acts (rest), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 good | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 good | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 good | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 found | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 found | det |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 robes | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 robes | case |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 robes | det |
| 14 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 the | nmod |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 found | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 found | aux:pass |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 good | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Erin | case |
| 20 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | rest | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find | could · passive | Erin | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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