Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 8
The "outcast child" is a frequent episode in folk and hero-tales: an instance occurs in my _English Fairy Tales_, No. xxxv., and Prof.
Who acts: outcast child, instance · What happens: be, occur · To what, where: frequent episode, folk, Fairy Tales
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 (outcast child, instance), 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 | 4 child | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 3 | outcast | outcast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 child | amod |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 episode | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 episode | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 episode | det |
| 8 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 episode | amod |
| 9 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 folk | case |
| 11 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 episode | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tales | cc |
| 13 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tales | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 hero | punct |
| 15 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 folk | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 occurs | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 instance | det |
| 18 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 occurs | nsubj |
| 19 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 episode | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Tales | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tales | punct |
| 23 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Fairy | compound |
| 24 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Tales | compound |
| 25 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 occurs | obj |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tales | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 xxxv | punct |
| 28 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 29 xxxv | compound |
| 29 | xxxv | xxxv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Tales | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 xxxv | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Prof | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Prof | cc |
| 33 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 occurs | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 episode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the outcast child | a frequent episode | folk and hero tales | tree rules | |||
| 2 | occur | present | a instance | my Fairy Tales | Prof obl | tree rules |
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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