Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 6
Rhymes of Scotland_, 64, of which I gave an Anglicised version in my _English Fairy Tales_, No. xxxii., is clearly a variant.
Who acts: Rhymes, Scotland · What happens: give, anglicise, be, rhyme · To what, where: Anglicised version, variant
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 (Rhymes, Scotland), 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 | Rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Scotland | case |
| 3 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rhymes | nmod |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Scotland | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 64 | punct |
| 6 | 64 | 64 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Scotland | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gave | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 version | det |
| 13 | Anglicised | anglicise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 version | amod |
| 14 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Fairy | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Fairy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fairy | punct |
| 18 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Fairy | compound |
| 19 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 20 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Fairy | nmod |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tales | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 No. | punct |
| 23 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 20 Tales | nmod |
| 24 | xxxii | xxxii | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 No. | dep |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 variant | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 variant | cop |
| 28 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 30 variant | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 variant | det |
| 30 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Rhymes of Scotland | a Anglicised version | in my English Fairy Tales No. | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme | |||
| 2 | anglicise | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a variant | clearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rhyme | Scotland | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: of=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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