Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 21
Parallels are accumulated by the Grimms, ii.
Who acts: Grimms · What happens: accumulate · To what, where: Parallels
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 (Grimms), 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 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 accumulated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 accumulated | aux:pass |
| 3 | accumulated | accumulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Grimms | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Grimms | det |
| 6 | Grimms | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 accumulated | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ii | punct |
| 8 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 3 accumulated | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accumulated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accumulate | present · passive | the Grimms | Parallels | ii obl | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=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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