Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 17
_ Pref. xxix.) thinks our tale cannot be older than 1362, because of a reference to one O'Connor Sligo which occurs in all its variants; it is, however, omitted in our somewhat abridged version.
Who acts: Pref, tale, O'Connor, reference, our · What happens: think, not be, occur, be, omit, abridge · To what, where: variants, abridged version · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pref, tale, O'Connor, reference), 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 Pref | punct |
| 2 | Pref | Pref | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pref | punct |
| 4 | xxix | xxix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pref | flat:foreign |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pref | punct |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pref | punct |
| 7 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tale | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 older | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 older | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 older | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 older | cop |
| 13 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 thinks | ccomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 1362 | case |
| 15 | 1362 | 1362 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 older | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reference | punct |
| 17 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 20 reference | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 because | fixed |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 reference | det |
| 20 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thinks | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 reference | nmod |
| 23 | O'Connor | O'Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | Sligo | Sligo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 O'Connor | flat |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 occurs | nsubj |
| 26 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 O'Connor | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 variants | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 variants | det:predet |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 variants | nmod:poss |
| 30 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 occurs | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 is | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 is | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thinks | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 omitted | punct |
| 35 | however | however | ADV | _ | 37 omitted | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 omitted | punct |
| 37 | omitted | omit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 thinks | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 version | case |
| 39 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 version | nmod:poss |
| 40 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 41 abridged | advmod |
| 41 | abridged | abridge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 version | amod |
| 42 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 omitted | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Pref | because a reference to one O'Connor | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | can | our tale | than 1362; old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | occur | present | O'Connor | reference's variants | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in variant=Location | ||||
| 4 | be | present | reference | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | omit | participle | Pref not said here | our abridged version | however property | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | abridge | participle | somewhat property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | tell | our | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | vary | reference | nom variant «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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