Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 23
It also crept into the voyages of Sindbad in the _Arabian Nights_.
Who acts: xii · What happens: creep, voyage · To what, where: voyages, Sindbad
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 (xii), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 voyages | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 voyages | det |
| 6 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crept | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Sindbad | case |
| 8 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 voyages | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Nights | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Nights | det |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Nights | punct |
| 12 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Nights | amod |
| 13 | Nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crept | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | xii | the voyages of Sindbad | night | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into voyage=Destination | |||
| 2 | voyage | Sindbad | nom voyage «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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