Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 4
K. Meyer appeared in the _Archaeological Review_, vol. i. I fail to see much analogy.
Who acts: K., I · What happens: appear, fail, not see · To what, where: Archaeological Review, vol., much analogy
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (K., I), 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 | K. | K. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | Meyer | Meyer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 K. | flat |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Review | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Review | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Archaeological | punct |
| 7 | Archaeological | Archaeological | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Review | compound |
| 8 | Review | Review | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Review | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vol. | punct |
| 11 | vol. | vol. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Review | appos |
| 12 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 vol. | dep |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fail | nsubj |
| 14 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 vol. | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fail | xcomp |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 analogy | amod |
| 18 | analogy | analogy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | K. | the Archaeological Review | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in review=Location | ||||
| 2 | fail | present | I | vol. not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see | to-infinitive | I not said here | much analogy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer analogy=Stimulus |
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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