Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 73
Tales that travelled to them could go no further and must therefore be the last links in the chain.
Who acts: Tales · What happens: travel, go, be · To what, where: tales, last links, chain
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 (Tales), 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 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tales | acl:relcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 travelled | obl |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 further | advmod |
| 9 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 go | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 links | cc |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 links | aux |
| 12 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 16 links | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 links | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 links | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 links | amod |
| 16 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 further | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 chain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chain | det |
| 19 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 links | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Tales | tales = tale | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go | could | Tales | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | must | Tales not said here | the last links | the chain | therefore property | 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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