Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 17
Lady Wylde has told many folk-tales very effectively in her _Ancient Legends of Ireland_, 1887.
Who acts: Lady · What happens: tell · To what, where: many folk tales, Ancient Legends · 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 (Lady), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 2 | Wylde | Wylde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lady | flat |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tales | amod |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tales | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 folk | punct |
| 8 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 effectively | advmod |
| 10 | effectively | effectively | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Legends | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Legends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Legends | punct |
| 14 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Legends | amod |
| 15 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ireland | case |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Legends | nmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ireland | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 1887 | punct |
| 20 | 1887 | 1887 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Ireland | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | Lady | many folk tales | Lady's Ancient Legends of Ireland | effectively property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=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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