Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 22
The passages in verse from pp 137, 139, and the description of the Beggarman, pp.
What happens: describe · To what, where: Beggarman
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: 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 | 2 passages | det |
| 2 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 verse | case |
| 4 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passages | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 pp | case |
| 6 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 verse | nmod |
| 7 | 137 | 137 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 pp | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 139 | punct |
| 9 | 139 | 139 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 137 | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 description | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 description | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 description | det |
| 13 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passages | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Beggarman | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Beggarman | det |
| 16 | Beggarman | Beggarman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 description | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pp | punct |
| 18 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 passages | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passages | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | the Beggarman | nom description «communication transitive»: of=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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