Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 12
Mr. Nutt adds tenth century Celtic parallels in _Folk-Lore_, vol. ii.
Who acts: Nutt · What happens: add · To what, where: Celtic parallels, Folk Lore
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nutt), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nutt | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 adds | nsubj |
| 3 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 century | amod |
| 5 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 adds | obj |
| 6 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 parallels | amod |
| 7 | parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 adds | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Lore | case |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lore | punct |
| 10 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Lore | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Folk | punct |
| 12 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 parallels | nmod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lore | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 vol. | punct |
| 15 | vol. | vol. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Lore | appos |
| 16 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 15 vol. | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | Nutt Mr. | Celtic parallels | Folk Lore | century | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parallel=Patient |
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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