Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 14
One-eyed giants are frequent in Celtic folk-tales (_e.g._ in _The Pursuit of Diarmaid_ and in the _Mabinogi_ of Owen).
Who acts: eyed giants · What happens: be · To what, where: Celtic folk tales
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 (eyed giants), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eyed | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
| 3 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 giants | amod |
| 4 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 frequent | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 frequent | cop |
| 6 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 8 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 folk | punct |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 frequent | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 e.g. | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 e.g. | punct |
| 14 | e.g. | e.g. | ADV | _ | 11 tales | conj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Pursuit | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Pursuit | case |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 in | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Pursuit | det |
| 19 | Pursuit | Pursuit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 frequent | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Diarmaid | case |
| 21 | Diarmaid | Diarmaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Pursuit | nmod |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Pursuit | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Mabinogi | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Mabinogi | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Mabinogi | det |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Mabinogi | punct |
| 27 | Mabinogi | Mabinogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Pursuit | conj |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Owen | punct |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Owen | case |
| 30 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Pursuit | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Owen | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | eyed giants | Celtic folk tales | in the Pursuit of Diarmaid and the Mabinogi; frequent property | 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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