Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 31
No other country in Europe, except perhaps Russia, could provide a parallel to this living on of Romance among the common folk.
Who acts: other country · What happens: provide · To what, where: parallel, living
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 (other country), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 country | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 country | amod |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 provide | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Europe | case |
| 5 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 country | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Russia | punct |
| 7 | except | except | ADP | _ | 9 Russia | case |
| 8 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 9 Russia | advmod |
| 9 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 country | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 country | punct |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 provide | aux |
| 12 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 parallel | det |
| 14 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 provide | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 living | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 living | det |
| 17 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 provide | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Romance | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 on | fixed |
| 20 | Romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 living | nmod |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 folk | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 folk | det |
| 23 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 folk | amod |
| 24 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Romance | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 provide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | could | no other country in Europe except Russia | a parallel | this living on Romance among the common folk | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent parallel=Theme to living=Recipient |
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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