Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 10
The Young King" is much like it; also MacInnes' No. iv., "Herding of Cruachan" and No. viii., "Lod the Farmer's Son."
Who acts: Young King · What happens: be · To what, where: No. iv
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Young King), 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 | 3 King | det |
| 2 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 iv | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 iv | cop |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 it | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 iv | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 iv | punct |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 iv | advmod |
| 11 | MacInnes | MacInnes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 iv | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 MacInnes | case |
| 13 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 14 iv | compound |
| 14 | iv | iv | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 iv | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Herding | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Herding | punct |
| 18 | Herding | herding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 iv | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Cruachan | case |
| 20 | Cruachan | Cruachan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Herding | nmod |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Herding | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 viii | cc |
| 23 | No. | no. | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 viii | det |
| 24 | viii | viii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 iv | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 iv | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 iv | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Lod | punct |
| 28 | Lod | Lod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 iv | appos |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Son | det |
| 30 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Son | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Farmer | case |
| 32 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Lod | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 Lod | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Lod | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Young King | MacInnes's No. iv and no. viii | tree rules |
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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