Celtic Fairy Tales, XIV. Jack and His Comrades., sentence 2
_Parallels_.--This is the fullest and most dramatic version I know of the Grimm's "Town Musicians of Bremen" (No. 27).
Who acts: This, I · What happens: be, know · To what, where: fullest version
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Jack and His Comrades.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | SYM | _ | 2 Parallels | discourse |
| 5 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 version | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 version | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 version | det |
| 8 | fullest | full | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 version | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dramatic | cc |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 dramatic | advmod |
| 11 | dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fullest | conj |
| 12 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | conj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 version | acl:relcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Musicians | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Grimm | det |
| 17 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Musicians | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Grimm | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Musicians | punct |
| 20 | Town | town | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Musicians | amod |
| 21 | Musicians | Musician | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 version | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Bremen | case |
| 23 | Bremen | Bremen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Musicians | nmod |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Bremen | punct |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 No. | punct |
| 26 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 23 Bremen | appos |
| 27 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 No. | flat |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 No. | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the fullest version | of the Grimm's Town Musicians of Bremen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | the fullest version not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer version=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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