Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 24
And as told in the Highlands it bears comparison even with the Homeric version.
What happens: tell · To what, where: Highlands bears comparison · 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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 told | mark |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Highlands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Highlands | det |
| 6 | Highlands | Highland | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 comparison | compound |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Highlands | obj |
| 8 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 comparison | compound |
| 9 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 version | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 version | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 version | det |
| 13 | Homeric | Homeric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 version | compound |
| 14 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | Highlands bears comparison | with the Homeric version | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent comparison=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/39/24/