Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 4
I have softened the third episode, which is somewhat too ghastly in the original.
Who acts: I, third episode · What happens: soften, be · To what, where: third episode, original
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 (I, third episode), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 softened | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 softened | aux |
| 3 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 episode | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 episode | amod |
| 6 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 softened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ghastly | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ghastly | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ghastly | cop |
| 10 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 12 ghastly | advmod |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 ghastly | advmod |
| 12 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 episode | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 original | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 original | det |
| 15 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ghastly | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 softened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soften | present · perfect | I | the third episode | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent episode=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the third episode | the original | ghastly, somewhat 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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