Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 2
_--_Notes and Queries_ for December 21, 1861; to which it was communicated by "Cuthbert Bede," the author of _Verdant Green_, who collected it in Cantyre.
Who acts: Cuthbert, Notes · What happens: communicate, collect · To what, where: Notes, Source, Cantyre
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuthbert, Notes), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Notes | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 Notes | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Notes | punct |
| 4 | Notes | Note | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 collected | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Queries | cc |
| 6 | Queries | query | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Notes | conj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 21 | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 21 | case |
| 9 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 21 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Queries | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 1861 | punct |
| 12 | 1861 | 1861 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 21 | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 communicated | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 communicated | mark |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 communicated | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 communicated | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 communicated | aux:pass |
| 18 | communicated | communicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Notes | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Cuthbert | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Cuthbert | punct |
| 21 | Cuthbert | Cuthbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 communicated | obl |
| 22 | Bede | Bede | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Cuthbert | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 author | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 author | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 author | det |
| 26 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Cuthbert | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Green | case |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 of | punct |
| 29 | Verdant | verdant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Green | amod |
| 30 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 author | nmod |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 communicated | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 collected | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 collected | nsubj |
| 34 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 collected | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Cantyre | case |
| 37 | Cantyre | Cantyre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 collected | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | communicate | past · passive | Cuthbert | Notes and Queries | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | collect | past | Notes and Queries | Source | Cantyre | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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