Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 17
It has been preserved in no less than five versions (or six, including Macpherson's "Darthula") ranging from the twelfth to the nineteenth century.
What happens: preserve, range · To what, where: Story, five versions, twelfth
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 preserved | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 preserved | aux:pass |
| 4 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 versions | case |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 less | advmod |
| 7 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 9 five | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 less | fixed |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 versions | nummod |
| 10 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 preserved | obl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 six | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 six | cc |
| 13 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 versions | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Darthula | punct |
| 15 | including | including | ADP | _ | 19 Darthula | case |
| 16 | Macpherson | Macpherson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Darthula | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Macpherson | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Darthula | punct |
| 19 | Darthula | Darthula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 six | appos |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Darthula | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 six | punct |
| 22 | ranging | range | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 preserved | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 twelfth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 twelfth | det |
| 25 | twelfth | twelfth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ranging | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 century | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 century | det |
| 28 | nineteenth | nineteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 century | amod |
| 29 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ranging | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 preserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | present · perfect · passive | Story | five versions | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | range | gerund | the twelfth | century | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from twelfth=Location |
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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