Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 13
Chapbooks, _Royal Fairy Tales_ and _Hibernian Tales_, also contained genuine folk-tales, and attracted Thackeray's attention in his _Irish Sketch-Book_.
Who acts: _ Royal Fairy Tales, Thackeray · What happens: contain, attract, attend · To what, where: genuine folk tales, attention, Irish Sketch Book
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 (_ Royal Fairy Tales, Thackeray), 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 | Chapbooks | chapbook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Tales | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chapbooks | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tales | compound |
| 4 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Tales | amod |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tales | compound |
| 6 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tales | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Tales | cc |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tales | punct |
| 10 | Hibernian | Hibernian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tales | compound |
| 11 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Tales | conj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tales | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 contained | punct |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 contained | advmod |
| 15 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Tales | acl |
| 16 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tales | amod |
| 17 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tales | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 folk | punct |
| 19 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 contained | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 attracted | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 attracted | cc |
| 22 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Tales | acl:relcl |
| 23 | Thackeray | Thackeray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 attention | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Thackeray | case |
| 25 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 attracted | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Book | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 Book | nmod:poss |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Book | punct |
| 29 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Book | amod |
| 30 | Sketch | Sketch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Book | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Sketch | punct |
| 32 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 attracted | obl |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 attracted | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tales | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | participle | _ Royal Fairy Tales and Hibernian Tales not said here | genuine folk tales | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attract | past | _ Royal Fairy Tales and Hibernian Tales not said here | Thackeray's attention | Thackeray's Irish Sketch Book | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | |||
| 3 | attend | Thackeray | nom attention «cognition 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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