Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 79
The lady herself is the most beautiful woman ever seen by man in Erin."
Who acts: lady · What happens: be, see · To what, where: beautiful woman
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 (lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 lady | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 woman | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 seen | advmod |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 woman | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Erin | case |
| 14 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 man | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the lady lady | the beautiful woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | the beautiful woman not said here | ever | by man in Erin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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