Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 23
20; or Blade, 149; Stokes' _Indian Fairy Tales_, 243, 276; and Messrs.
Who acts: Stokes · What happens: tell · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Stokes), 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 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 Blade | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 Blade | cc |
| 4 | Blade | Blade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 20 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 149 | punct |
| 6 | 149 | 149 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Blade | list |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tales | punct |
| 8 | Stokes | stoke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 Stokes | case |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tales | punct |
| 11 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Tales | amod |
| 12 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Tales | compound |
| 13 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 149 | appos |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tales | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 243 | punct |
| 16 | 243 | 243 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Tales | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 276 | punct |
| 18 | 276 | 276 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 243 | flat |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Messrs | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Messrs | cc |
| 21 | Messrs | Messrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 149 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 20 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell | Stokes | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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