Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 53
The interesting thing to notice is the remarkable similarity of Scotch and Irish folk-tales.
Who acts: interesting thing · What happens: notice, be · To what, where: remarkable similarity
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 (interesting thing), 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 | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 similarity | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 notice | mark |
| 5 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thing | acl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 similarity | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 similarity | det |
| 8 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 similarity | amod |
| 9 | similarity | similarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Scotch | case |
| 11 | Scotch | scotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 similarity | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tales | cc |
| 13 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tales | amod |
| 14 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tales | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 folk | punct |
| 16 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 similarity | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 similarity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | to-infinitive | the interesting thing not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the interesting thing | the remarkable similarity and Irish folk tales | of Scotch | 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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