Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 12
These all tell their tales in the manner of the stage Irishman.
Who acts: schools · What happens: tell · To what, where: tales, manner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (schools), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 all | det |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tales | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 manner | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 manner | det |
| 8 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stage | det |
| 11 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 manner | nmod |
| 12 | Irishman | Irishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stage | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | schools's tales | the manner of the stage | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tell | schools = school | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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