Celtic Fairy Tales, III. Field of Boliauns., sentence 4

In the original the gnome is a Cluricaune, but as a friend of Mr. Batten's has recently heard the tale told of a Lepracaun, I have adopted the better known title.

Who acts: gnome, friend, tale, I · What happens: be, hear, tell, adopt, know · To what, where: Cluricaune, better known title, original · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. Field of Boliauns.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnome, friend, tale, I), 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	_	3 original	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 original	det
3	original	original	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 adopted	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gnome	det
5	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Cluricaune	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Cluricaune	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Cluricaune	det
8	Cluricaune	Cluricaune	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 original	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 friend	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Batten	case
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Batten	nmod:desc
16	Batten	Batten	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 friend	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Batten	case
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	aux
19	recently	recently	ADV	_	20 heard	advmod
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 Cluricaune	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tale	det
22	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Lepracaun	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Lepracaun	det
26	Lepracaun	Lepracaun	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 told	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 original	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 adopted	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 adopted	aux
30	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 title	det
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 title	amod
33	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 title	amod
34	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 adopted	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 adopted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the gnome	a Cluricaune			tree rules
2	hear	present · perfect	Batten Mr.'s friend			recently property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	the tale			of a Lepracaun	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	adopt	present · perfect	I	the better known title	the original		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme
5	know	participle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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