Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 25
Under these circumstances it is not unlikely that our legend grew up within the century after Conn--_i.e._, during the latter half of the second century.
Who acts: legend · What happens: not be, grow up · To what, where: circumstances
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 (legend), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 circumstances | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 circumstances | det |
| 3 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 unlikely | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 unlikely | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 unlikely | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 unlikely | advmod |
| 7 | unlikely | unlikely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 grew | mark |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 legend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 unlikely | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grew | compound:prt |
| 13 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 century | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 century | det |
| 15 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | obl |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 Conn | case |
| 17 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 i.e. | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 i.e. | punct |
| 20 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 7 unlikely | parataxis |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 i.e. | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 half | punct |
| 23 | during | during | ADP | _ | 26 half | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 half | det |
| 25 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 half | amod |
| 26 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 unlikely | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 century | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 century | det |
| 29 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 century | amod |
| 30 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 half | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 unlikely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | this circumstances | unlikely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow up | past | our legend | after Conn; century | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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