Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 12
The incident of the giant's breath occurs in the story of Koisha Kayn, MacInnes' _Tales_, i. 241, as well as the Polyphemus one, _ibid.
Who acts: incident, MacInnes · What happens: occur, tell · To what, where: Polyphemus, story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (incident, MacInnes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 incident | det |
| 2 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 breath | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breath | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 giant | case |
| 7 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 incident | nmod |
| 8 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 story | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 occurs | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Koisha | case |
| 13 | Koisha | Koisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 story | nmod |
| 14 | Kayn | Kayn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Koisha | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Tales | punct |
| 16 | MacInnes | MacInnes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 MacInnes | case |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Tales | punct |
| 19 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Koisha | appos |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Tales | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 241 | punct |
| 22 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 241 | nsubj |
| 23 | 241 | 241 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 story | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Polyphemus | punct |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 29 Polyphemus | cc |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 as | fixed |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 as | fixed |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Polyphemus | det |
| 29 | Polyphemus | Polyphemus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 occurs | obl |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 Polyphemus | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ibid | punct |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 ibid | punct |
| 33 | ibid | ibid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Polyphemus | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | the incident of the giant's breath | the Polyphemus and ibid | the story of Koisha | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in story=Location | |||
| 2 | tell | MacInnes | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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