Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 13
The wooing of hero by heroine is a characteristic Celtic touch.
Who acts: wooing, heroine · What happens: be, woo · To what, where: characteristic Celtic touch, hero
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 (wooing, heroine), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wooing | det |
| 2 | wooing | wooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touch | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hero | case |
| 4 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wooing | nmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 heroine | case |
| 6 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wooing | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 touch | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 touch | det |
| 9 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 touch | amod |
| 10 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 touch | amod |
| 11 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wooing of hero by heroine | a characteristic Celtic touch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | woo | heroine | hero | nom wooing «communication transitive»: of=patient by=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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