Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 43
The contrast of Past and Present has never been more vividly or beautifully represented.
What happens: not be, represent · To what, where: contrast
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: 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 | 2 contrast | det |
| 2 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Past | case |
| 4 | Past | Past | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 contrast | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Present | cc |
| 6 | Present | Present | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Past | conj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 represented | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 vividly | advmod |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 vividly | cop |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 vividly | advmod |
| 11 | vividly | vividly | ADV | _ | 14 represented | advmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 beautifully | cc |
| 13 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 11 vividly | conj |
| 14 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | participle | vividly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | represent | present · perfect · passive | the contrast of Past and Present | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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