Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 9
Here it attracted the notice of Thackeray, who gives a good abstract of it in his _Irish Sketch-Book_, ch. xvi.
Who acts: story, notice · What happens: attract, give, notice, abstract · To what, where: notice, good abstract, Irish Sketch Book, Thackeray
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 (story, notice), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 attracted | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 attracted | nsubj |
| 3 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 notice | det |
| 5 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attracted | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Thackeray | case |
| 7 | Thackeray | Thackeray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 notice | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gives | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 gives | nsubj |
| 10 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 notice | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 abstract | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 abstract | amod |
| 13 | abstract | abstract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gives | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 abstract | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Book | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Book | nmod:poss |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Book | punct |
| 19 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Book | amod |
| 20 | Sketch | Sketch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Book | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sketch | punct |
| 22 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gives | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 gives | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ch | punct |
| 25 | ch | ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notice | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attracted | punct |
| 27 | xvi | xvi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attracted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past | story | the notice of Thackeray and ch | here | xvi obl | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient | ||
| 2 | give | present | the notice of Thackeray and ch | a good abstract of story | Thackeray's Irish Sketch Book | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abstract=Theme | |||
| 3 | notice | Thackeray | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | abstract | story | nom abstract «cognition 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/39/9/