Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 2
Tales of West Highlands_, No. v. pp.
Who acts: West Highlands · What happens: tell · 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 (West Highlands), 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 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pp | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Highlands | case |
| 3 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Highlands | compound |
| 4 | Highlands | Highlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tales | nmod |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Highlands | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 No. | punct |
| 7 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 4 Highlands | conj |
| 8 | v. | V. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 No. | flat |
| 9 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell | West Highlands and No. | 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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