Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 1
There were formerly a man and a woman living in the parish of Llanlavan, in the place which is called Hwrdh.
Who acts: man, woman · What happens: be, live, call · To what, where: parish, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, woman), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 2 were | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 woman | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | conj |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 woman | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 parish | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 parish | det |
| 12 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Llanlavan | case |
| 14 | Llanlavan | Llanlavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 parish | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | Hwrdh | Hwrdh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a man and a woman | there | formerly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | a woman not said here | the parish of Llanlavan | in the place | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in parish=Location | |||
| 3 | call | present · passive | the place | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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