Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 1
_Source_.--Preface to the edition of "The Physicians of Myddvai"; their prescription-book, from the Red Book of Hergest, published by the Welsh MS. Society in 1861.
What happens: publish · To what, where: Red Book, 1861
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai.. 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 | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 2 | Source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Preface | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | SYM | _ | 5 Preface | discourse |
| 5 | Preface | preface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Source | appos |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 edition | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edition | det |
| 8 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Preface | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Physicians | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Physicians | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Physicians | det |
| 12 | Physicians | Physician | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 edition | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Myddvai | case |
| 14 | Myddvai | Myddvai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Physicians | nmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Physicians | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 book | punct |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 book | nmod:poss |
| 18 | prescription | prescription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 book | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 prescription | punct |
| 20 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Source | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Book | punct |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Book | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Book | det |
| 24 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Book | compound |
| 25 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Source | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Hergest | case |
| 27 | Hergest | Hergest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Book | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 published | punct |
| 29 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Book | acl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 Society | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Society | det |
| 32 | Welsh | Welsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Society | compound |
| 33 | MS. | MS. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Society | nmod:desc |
| 34 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 published | obl:agent |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 1861 | case |
| 36 | 1861 | 1861 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 published | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | participle | the Red Book of Hergest not said here | 1861 | vn create-26.4 «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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