Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 10

He thinks it "worthy of the Arabian Nights, as wild and odd as an Eastern tale." "

Who acts: Book · What happens: think · To what, where: story

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. Conal Yellowclaw.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Book), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 worthy	punct
5	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Nights	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Nights	det
8	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Nights	amod
9	Nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worthy	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wild	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 wild	case
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 odd	cc
14	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wild	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	18 tale	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tale	det
17	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tale	amod
18	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wild	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wild	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wild	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Book	story				worthy property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/39/10/