Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 9
315; W. Sikes, _British Goblins_, p. 40.
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 315 | 315 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sikes | punct |
| 3 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sikes | compound |
| 4 | Sikes | sike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 315 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Goblins | punct |
| 6 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 8 Goblins | case |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Goblins | amod |
| 8 | Goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Sikes | appos |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Goblins | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 p. | punct |
| 11 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sikes | nmod |
| 12 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 p. | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 315 | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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