Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 9
Another instance quoted by Yule is still more parallel, so to speak.
Who acts: instance · What happens: quote, be, speak · To what, where: instance · 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 (instance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:2539): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 instance | det |
| 2 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parallel | nsubj |
| 3 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 instance | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Yule | case |
| 5 | Yule | Yule | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 quoted | obl:agent |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 parallel | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 parallel | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 parallel | advmod |
| 9 | parallel | parallel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 speak | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 speak | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 speak | mark |
| 13 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 parallel | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 parallel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | participle | another instance not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | another instance | still | parallel property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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