Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 4
_--Lover has a tale, "Little Fairly," obviously derived from this folk-tale; and there is another very similar, "Darby Darly."
Who acts: _, another · What happens: have, derive, be · To what, where: tale, Little, folk tale
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 (_, another), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | Lover | Lover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tale | det |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 derived | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Little | punct |
| 9 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 derived | obl |
| 10 | Fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 14 derived | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fairly | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 derived | punct |
| 13 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 14 derived | advmod |
| 14 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 has | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 tale | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 tale | det |
| 17 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tale | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 folk | punct |
| 19 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 derived | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 is | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 24 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 23 is | nsubj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 similar | advmod |
| 26 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 another | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 similar | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Darby | punct |
| 29 | Darby | Darby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 similar | appos |
| 30 | Darly | Darly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Darby | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 Darby | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Darby | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | _ | a tale | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient | ||||
| 2 | derive | participle | _ not said here | Little | this folk tale | fairly, obviously property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from tale=Material | ||
| 3 | be | present | another | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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