Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 19
On the other hand, the Swan-Maiden type of story is widespread through the Old World.
Who acts: Old World · What happens: widesprea, type · To what, where: Swan Maiden type, other hand, story
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 (Old World), 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 | 14 widespread | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 type | det |
| 7 | Swan | Swan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 type | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Swan | punct |
| 9 | Maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 type | amod |
| 10 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 widespread | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 story | case |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 type | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 widespread | aux:pass |
| 14 | widespread | widesprea | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 World | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 World | det |
| 17 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 World | amod |
| 18 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 widespread | obl:agent |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 widespread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | widesprea | present · passive | the Old World | the Swan Maiden type of story | the other hand | tree rules | |||
| 2 | type | story | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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