Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 6
This has the incident of the "accidental matricide," on which see Prof.
Who acts: This · What happens: have, see · To what, where: incident, Prof
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 incident | det |
| 4 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 matricide | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 matricide | det |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 matricide | punct |
| 8 | accidental | accidental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 matricide | amod |
| 9 | matricide | matricide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 incident | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | parataxis |
| 15 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | This | the incident of the accidental matricide | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | present | Prof | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prof=Stimulus |
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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