Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 13
In each case Mr. Hartland gives what he considers to be the most primitive form of the incident.
Who acts: Hartland, Mr. · What happens: give, consider, be · To what, where: case, primitive form
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: who acts (Hartland, Mr.), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gives | obl |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hartland | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Hartland | Hartland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gives | nsubj |
| 6 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 considers | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 considers | nsubj |
| 9 | considers | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gives | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 form | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 form | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 form | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 primitive | advmod |
| 14 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 form | amod |
| 15 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 considers | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 incident | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 incident | det |
| 18 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 form | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Hartland Mr. | each case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consider | present | Mr. | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | Mr. not said here | the primitive form | of the incident | 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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