Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 20
On the other hand, the gold sticking to the scales is familiar to us in _Ali Baba_.
Who acts: gold · What happens: stick, be · To what, where: us, other hand
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 (gold), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 familiar | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gold | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 familiar | nsubj |
| 8 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 gold | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 scales | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 scales | det |
| 11 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sticking | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 familiar | cop |
| 13 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 familiar | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Ali | case |
| 17 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ali | compound |
| 18 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 familiar | obl |
| 19 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ali | flat |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ali | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 familiar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | gerund | the gold not said here | to the scales | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to scale=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the gold | us | the other hand | in _ Ali; familiar 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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