Celtic Fairy Tales, II. Guleesh., sentence 7
But the closest parallel is given by Miss Maclintock's Donegal tale of "Jamie Freel and the Young Lady," reprinted in Mr. Yeats' _Irish Folk and Fairy Tales_, 52-9.
Who acts: Donegal tale, Jamie · What happens: give, reprint, tell · To what, where: closest parallel, Yeats · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Guleesh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Donegal tale, Jamie), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 given | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 parallel | det |
| 3 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 parallel | amod |
| 4 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 tale | case |
| 8 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tale | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Maclintock | Maclintock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Miss | flat |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Miss | case |
| 11 | Donegal | Donegal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tale | compound |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Jamie | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Jamie | punct |
| 15 | Jamie | Jamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tale | nmod |
| 16 | Freel | Freel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Jamie | flat |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Lady | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lady | det |
| 19 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Lady | amod |
| 20 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Jamie | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reprinted | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 reprinted | punct |
| 23 | reprinted | reprint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 given | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Yeats | case |
| 25 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Yeats | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Yeats | yeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reprinted | obl |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 Yeats | case |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Folk | punct |
| 29 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Folk | amod |
| 30 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Yeats | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Tales | cc |
| 32 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Tales | compound |
| 33 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Folk | conj |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Tales | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 52-9 | punct |
| 36 | 52-9 | 52-9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 Folk | list |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | Miss's Donegal tale of Jamie and the Young Lady | the closest parallel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reprint | participle | Miss's Donegal tale of Jamie and the Young Lady not said here | Yeats Mr. Irish Folk and Fairy Tales | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell | Jamie and the Young Lady | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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