Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 3
_Parallels_.--Miss Dempster gives the same story in her Sutherland Collection, No. vii.
Who acts: Miss Dempster · What happens: give · To what, where: same story, Sutherland Collection
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 (Miss Dempster), 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 | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 gives | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 7 gives | punct |
| 5 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Dempster | compound |
| 6 | Dempster | dempster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gives | nsubj |
| 7 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Parallels | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 story | amod |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gives | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Collection | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Collection | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Sutherland | Sutherland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Collection | compound |
| 14 | Collection | Collection | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vii | punct |
| 16 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 17 vii | compound |
| 17 | vii | vii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Miss Dempster | the same story and No. vii | Dempster's Sutherland Collection | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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