Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 27
These "runs" are another confirmation of my view that the original form of the folk-tale was that of the _Cante-fable_ (see note on "Connla" and on "Childe Rowland" in _English Fairy Tales_).
Who acts: These, my · What happens: run, be, see, view, form · To what, where: confirmation, note, Connla, folk tale · 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 (These, my), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 runs | nsubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 runs | punct |
| 3 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 confirmation | parataxis |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 runs | punct |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 confirmation | cop |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 confirmation | det |
| 7 | confirmation | confirmation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 view | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 view | nmod:poss |
| 10 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confirmation | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 form | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 form | det |
| 13 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 form | amod |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 view | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tale | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tale | det |
| 17 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tale | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 folk | punct |
| 19 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 form | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 _ | cop |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 _ | mark |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 _ | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 _ | det |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 _ | punct |
| 25 | Cante | Cante | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 _ | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Cante | punct |
| 27 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 _ | compound |
| 28 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 form | conj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 _ | parataxis |
| 31 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 Connla | case |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Connla | punct |
| 34 | Connla | Connla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 note | nmod |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Connla | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Rowland | cc |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 Rowland | case |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Rowland | punct |
| 39 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Rowland | compound |
| 40 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Tales | compound |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Rowland | punct |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 _ | case |
| 43 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Rowland | nmod |
| 44 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Tales | compound |
| 45 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Tales | compound |
| 46 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 Connla | conj |
| 47 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 46 Tales | punct |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 Tales | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 confirmation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | present | These | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | another confirmation | of my view | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | of the Cante fable _ | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | note | Connla and Rowland English Fairy Tales | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | view | my | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | form | the folk tale | nom form «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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