Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 5
On the other hand in his _Arthurian Legend_, p. 41, he rightly compares the tasks set by Yspythadon to those set to Jason.
Who acts: K. · What happens: compare, set · To what, where: tasks, other hand, Jason
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.), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 compares | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Legend | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Legend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Legend | punct |
| 8 | Arthurian | arthurian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Legend | amod |
| 9 | Legend | Legend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | nmod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Legend | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 p. | punct |
| 12 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Legend | conj |
| 13 | 41 | 41 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 p. | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 compares | nsubj |
| 16 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 17 compares | advmod |
| 17 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tasks | det |
| 19 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 compares | obj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 compares | xcomp |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Yspythadon | case |
| 22 | Yspythadon | Yspythadon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 those | case |
| 24 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 set | obl |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 those | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Jason | case |
| 27 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 compares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | K. | the tasks | the other hand in K.'s Arthurian Legend and p. | rightly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | set | participle | K. not said here | by Yspythadon; to those | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by yspythadon=Destination | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | Jason | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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