Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 24

Collections of conventional epithets are used over and over again to describe the same incident, the beaching of a boat, sea-faring, travelling and the like, and are inserted in different tales.

What happens: use, describe, travel, insert · To what, where: Collections, same incident, different tales

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	Collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 used	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 epithets	case
3	conventional	conventional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 epithets	amod
4	epithets	epithet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Collections	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 used	aux:pass
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	over	over	ADV	_	6 used	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 again	cc
9	over	over	ADV	_	10 again	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	7 over	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 describe	mark
12	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 incident	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 incident	amod
15	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 describe	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beaching	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beaching	det
18	beaching	beaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 incident	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 boat	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boat	det
21	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beaching	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 faring	punct
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 faring	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 sea	punct
25	faring	faring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 boat	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 travelling	punct
27	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 describe	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 like	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 like	det
30	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 travelling	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 inserted	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 inserted	cc
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 inserted	aux:pass
34	inserted	insert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 used	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 tales	case
36	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tales	amod
37	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 inserted	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive	Collections of conventional epithets		over property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	describe	to-infinitive	the same incident			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent incident=Theme
3	travel	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	insert	present · passive		different tales		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in tale=Destination

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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