Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 14
Mr. Clouston discusses it also in his _Pop.
Who acts: Clouston · What happens: discuss · To what, where: tale, Pop
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clouston), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Clouston | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Clouston | Clouston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 discusses | nsubj |
| 3 | discusses | discuss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 discusses | obj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 discusses | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Pop | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Pop | nmod:poss |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Pop | punct |
| 9 | Pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discusses | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discusses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss speech: other | present | Clouston Mr. | tale | Clouston's Pop | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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