Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 32
Here is the hostess, and she's young and pretty.
Who acts: hostess, service · What happens: be
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 (hostess, service), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hostess | det |
| 4 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 young | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 young | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 young | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 young | cop |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hostess | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pretty | cc |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 young | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the hostess | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | service | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | service not said here | 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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