Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 16

_--Thackeray's reference to the "Arabian Nights" is especially apt, as the tale of Conall is a framework story like _The 1001 Nights_, the three stories told by Conall being framed, as it were, in a fourth which is nominally the real story.

Who acts: Arabian Nights, _, story, fourth, Thackeray, Conall · What happens: be, tell, frame, refer · To what, where: framework story, three stories, fourth, real 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 (Arabian Nights, _, story, fourth), 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 story	nsubj
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 reference	punct
3	Thackeray	Thackeray	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reference	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Thackeray	case
5	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 _	appos
6	to	to	SCONJ	_	14 apt	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 apt	det
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Nights	punct
9	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Nights	amod
10	Nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 apt	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Nights	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 apt	cop
13	especially	especially	ADV	_	14 apt	advmod
14	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reference	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tale	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 tale	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tale	det
18	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 apt	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Conall	case
20	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 tale	nmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 story	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 story	det
23	framework	framework	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 story	compound
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	like	like	ADP	_	29 Nights	case
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Nights	det
28	1001	1001	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 Nights	nummod
29	Nights	Night	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 story	nmod
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 Nights	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stories	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stories	det
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 stories	nummod
34	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 story	nmod
35	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 stories	acl
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 Conall	case
37	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 told	obl:agent
38	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 framed	aux:pass
39	framed	frame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 told	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fourth	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 fourth	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 fourth	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 fourth	cop
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fourth	punct
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 fourth	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 fourth	det
47	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 framed	parataxis
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 story	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 story	cop
50	nominally	nominally	ADV	_	53 story	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 story	det
52	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 story	amod
53	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fourth	parataxis
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Arabian Nights				apt, especially property	tree rules
2	is a	present	_	a framework story		like the 1001 Nights	the three stories nmod	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	participle		the three stories not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	frame	gerund · passive						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»
5	is	past	story		a fourth			tree rules
6	is a	present	a fourth	the real story			nominally property	tree rules
7	refer		Thackeray					nom reference «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	tell		Conall					nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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