Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 14
See "Connla" here, and other examples given by Mr. Nutt in his notes to MacInnes' _Tales_.
Who acts: you, Nutt, MacInnes · What happens: see, give, note, tell · To what, where: Connla, other examples, Tales, notes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Nutt, MacInnes), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Connla | punct |
| 3 | Connla | Connla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Connla | punct |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 See | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 examples | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 examples | cc |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 examples | amod |
| 9 | examples | example | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 See | obl |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 examples | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Nutt | case |
| 12 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Nutt | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 notes | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 notes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Tales | case |
| 18 | MacInnes | MacInnes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 MacInnes | case |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Tales | punct |
| 21 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | obl |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 examples | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | Connla | here | other examples obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer connla=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | give | participle | other examples not said here | MacInnes's Tales | Nutt's notes | by Nutt Mr. | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tale=Recipient | ||
| 3 | note | Nutt | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell | MacInnes | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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