Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 1
_Source_.--Lady Wilde's _Ancient Legends_, the first story.
Who acts: Lady Wilde · What happens: legend
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Wilde), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 2 | Source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 10 Legends | punct |
| 5 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wilde | compound |
| 6 | Wilde | Wilde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Legends | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Wilde | case |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Legends | punct |
| 9 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Legends | amod |
| 10 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Source | appos |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Legends | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 story | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 story | amod |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Source | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | legend | Lady Wilde | tree rules |
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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