Celtic Fairy Tales, II. Guleesh., sentence 8
In the _Hibernian Tales_, "Mann o' Malaghan and the Fairies," as reported by Thackeray in the _Irish Sketch-Book_, c. xvi., begins like "Guleesh."
What happens: report, begin · To what, where: Mann o, Hibernian Tales
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Tales | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tales | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tales | punct |
| 4 | Hibernian | Hibernian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tales | compound |
| 5 | Tales | Tales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 begins | obl |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tales | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 o | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 o | punct |
| 9 | Mann | Mann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 o | compound |
| 10 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tales | appos |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Malaghan | punct |
| 12 | Malaghan | Malaghan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 o | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Fairies | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fairies | det |
| 15 | Fairies | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Malaghan | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Malaghan | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Malaghan | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 reported | mark |
| 19 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 o | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Thackeray | case |
| 21 | Thackeray | Thackeray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 reported | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Book | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Book | det |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Book | punct |
| 25 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Book | amod |
| 26 | Sketch | Sketch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Book | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Sketch | punct |
| 28 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Thackeray | nmod |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Thackeray | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 c. | punct |
| 31 | c. | c. | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 Thackeray | dep |
| 32 | xvi | xvi | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 c. | flat:foreign |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 o | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tales | punct |
| 35 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 38 Guleesh | case |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Guleesh | punct |
| 38 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 begins | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 begins | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | participle | Mann o not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | present | the Hibernian Tales | like Guleesh | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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