Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 11
Dr. Joyce has a somewhat florid version in, his _Old Celtic Romances_, from which I have borrowed a touch or two.
Who acts: Joyce, I · What happens: have, borrow, romance · To what, where: florid version, touch
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joyce, I), 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 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Joyce | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Joyce | Joyce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 version | det |
| 5 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 6 florid | advmod |
| 6 | florid | florid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 version | amod |
| 7 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 version | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Romances | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Romances | nmod:poss |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Romances | punct |
| 12 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Romances | amod |
| 13 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Romances | amod |
| 14 | Romances | romance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 version | appos |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Romances | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 borrowed | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 borrowed | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 borrowed | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 borrowed | aux |
| 21 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 version | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 touch | det |
| 23 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 borrowed | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 two | cc |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 touch | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Joyce Dr. | a florid version | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient | ||||
| 2 | borrow | present · perfect | I | a touch | a florid version | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent touch=Theme from which=Source | |||
| 3 | romance | Joyce | nom romance «state 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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