Celtic Fairy Tales, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire., sentence 8
The head-crowned spikes are Celtic, _cf.
Who acts: crowned spikes · What happens: crown, be
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowned spikes), 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 | 5 spikes | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crowned | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 head | punct |
| 4 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 spikes | amod |
| 5 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Celtic | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Celtic | cop |
| 7 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cf | punct |
| 9 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cf | amod |
| 10 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Celtic | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Celtic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the crowned spikes | celtic property | 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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