Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 5
Dr. Hyde has an Irish version of Campbell's tale written down in 1762, from which he gives the incident of the air-ladder (which I have had to euphemise in my version) in his _Beside the Fireside_, p. 191, and other passages in his Preface.
Who acts: Hyde, I, air ladder, Campbell · What happens: have, write down, give, euphemise, tell, preface · To what, where: Irish version, tale, 1762, incident, air ladder, 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 (Hyde, I, air ladder, Campbell), 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 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hyde | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Hyde | Hyde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 version | det |
| 5 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 version | amod |
| 6 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tale | case |
| 8 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Campbell | case |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 version | nmod |
| 11 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tale | acl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 written | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1762 | case |
| 14 | 1762 | 1762 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 written | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gives | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 gives | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gives | nsubj |
| 19 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 incident | det |
| 21 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gives | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ladder | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ladder | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ladder | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 air | punct |
| 26 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 incident | nmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 had | obj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 had | aux |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 ladder | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 euphemise | mark |
| 33 | euphemise | euphemise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 had | xcomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 version | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 version | nmod:poss |
| 36 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 euphemise | obl |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 version | punct |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 Fireside | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 Fireside | nmod:poss |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 Fireside | punct |
| 41 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 43 Fireside | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Fireside | det |
| 43 | Fireside | Fireside | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 euphemise | obl |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 Fireside | punct |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 p. | punct |
| 46 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Fireside | conj |
| 47 | 191 | 191 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 46 p. | flat |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 passages | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 passages | cc |
| 50 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 passages | amod |
| 51 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 Fireside | conj |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 Preface | case |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 Preface | nmod:poss |
| 54 | Preface | preface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 passages | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Hyde Dr. | a Irish version of Campbell's tale | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient | ||||
| 2 | write down | participle | Campbell's tale not said here | 1762 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1762=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | present | Hyde | the incident of the air ladder | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present · perfect | I | the air ladder | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | euphemise | to-infinitive | the air ladder not said here | my version | in Hyde's Fireside and p. and other passages in Hyde's Preface | tree rules | |||
| 6 | tell | Campbell | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | preface | Hyde | nom preface «communication transitive»: 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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