Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 16
_, 222, "How Fion selected a Wife").
Who acts: Fion · What happens: select · To what, where: Wife
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 (Fion), 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 | _ | 3 222 | punct |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 222 | punct |
| 3 | 222 | 222 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 selected | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 selected | punct |
| 6 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 selected | advmod |
| 7 | Fion | Fion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 selected | nsubj |
| 8 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 222 | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Wife | det |
| 10 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 selected | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wife | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 selected | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 222 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select in a quote | past | Fion | a Wife | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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