Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 9
A much closer one is in Campbell, ii. p. 63, where fairies are got rid of by shouting "Dunveilg is on fire."
Who acts: closer one, Dunveilg · What happens: be, get, shout · To what, where: Campbell, fairies, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (closer one, Dunveilg), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 closer | advmod |
| 3 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Campbell | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Campbell | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Campbell | case |
| 7 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ii | punct |
| 9 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 7 Campbell | flat |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Campbell | punct |
| 11 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 63 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | 63 | 63 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Campbell | list |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 got | advmod |
| 15 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | aux:pass |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Campbell | acl:relcl |
| 18 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 got | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rid | obl |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 shouting | mark |
| 21 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 got | advcl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 fire | punct |
| 23 | Dunveilg | Dunveilg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 fire | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fire | cop |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 fire | case |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shouting | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 fire | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 fire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a closer one | Campbell | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present · passive | fairies | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Dunveilg | fire | 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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