Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 8
It tells the tale in five acts, all included in one sketch.
Who acts: sailor, five acts · What happens: tell, include · To what, where: tale, five acts, all, one sketch · 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 (sailor, five acts), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 acts | case |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 acts | nummod |
| 7 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tells | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 included | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 included | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 acts | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sketch | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sketch | nummod |
| 13 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 included | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | sailor | the tale | five acts | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | |||
| 2 | include | participle · passive | five acts not said here | all | in one sketch goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in sketch=Goal |
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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