Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 10
The Grimms did Croker the honour of translating part of his book, under the title of _Irische Elfenmaerchen_.
Who acts: Grimms, honour · What happens: do, translate, title · To what, where: Croker, part, title, Irische
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grimms, honour), 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 Grimms | det |
| 2 | Grimms | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Croker | Croker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 honour | det |
| 6 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 translating | mark |
| 8 | translating | translate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 honour | acl |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 translating | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 book | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 book | nmod:poss |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 part | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 title | punct |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 title | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 title | det |
| 16 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 translating | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Irische | case |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 of | punct |
| 19 | Irische | Irische | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 title | nmod |
| 20 | Elfenmaerchen | Elfenmaerchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Irische | flat |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 title | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Grimms | Croker | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | translate | gerund | the honour not said here | part of Croker's book | the title of Irische | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | |||
| 3 | title | Irische | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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