Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 29
It has clearly been touched up by a Christian hand who introduced the reference to the day of judgment and to the waning power of the Druids.
Who acts: Christian hand · What happens: touch up, introduce, wane · To what, where: form, reference
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 (Christian hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:2290): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | aux |
| 3 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 5 touched | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 touched | aux:pass |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 touched | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hand | det |
| 9 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obl:agent |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 introduced | nsubj |
| 12 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reference | det |
| 14 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 introduced | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reference | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 judgment | case |
| 19 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 power | cc |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 power | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 power | det |
| 23 | waning | wane | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 power | amod |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Druids | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Druids | det |
| 27 | Druids | druid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 power | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch up | present · perfect · passive | a Christian hand | form | clearly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | introduce | past | a Christian hand | the reference | to the day of judgment and the waning power of the Druids | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reference=Patient | |||
| 3 | wane | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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