Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 2
_--From oral tradition, by the late D. W. Logie, taken down by Mr. Alfred Nutt.
What happens: take down · To what, where: oral tradition
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: 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 tradition | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 tradition | punct |
| 3 | From | from | ADP | _ | 5 tradition | case |
| 4 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tradition | amod |
| 5 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 D. | punct |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 D. | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 D. | det |
| 9 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 D. | amod |
| 10 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tradition | conj |
| 11 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 D. | flat |
| 12 | Logie | Logie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 D. | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tradition | acl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 taken | compound:prt |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Alfred | case |
| 17 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Alfred | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl:agent |
| 19 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Alfred | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tradition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | participle | oral tradition and the late D. not said here | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
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