Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 26
The volumes of _Waifs and Strays_ contain numerous examples of these "runs," which have been indexed in each volume.
Who acts: volumes, numerous examples · What happens: contain, run, index, exemplify · To what, where: volume, these · 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 (volumes, numerous examples), 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 volumes | det |
| 2 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 contain | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Waifs | case |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Waifs | punct |
| 5 | Waifs | waif | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 volumes | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Strays | cc |
| 7 | Strays | stray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Waifs | conj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 contain | punct |
| 9 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 examples | amod |
| 11 | examples | example | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 runs | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 these | case |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 examples | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 these | punct |
| 15 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 contain | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 indexed | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 indexed | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 indexed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 indexed | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 indexed | aux:pass |
| 21 | indexed | index | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 runs | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 volume | case |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 volume | det |
| 24 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 indexed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | the volumes of Waifs and Strays | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run in a quote | present | numerous examples of these | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | index | present · perfect · passive | each volume | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | exemplify | these | nom example «cognition 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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