Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 11
The third of Mr. Britten's Irish folk-tales in the _Folk-Lore Journal_ is a Sea-Maiden story.
Who acts: Folk · What happens: be · To what, where: Maiden story
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 (Folk), 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 | 2 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tales | case |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Britten | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Britten | Britten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tales | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Britten | case |
| 7 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tales | amod |
| 8 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tales | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 folk | punct |
| 10 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 third | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 story | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 story | punct |
| 14 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 story | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lore | punct |
| 16 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Folk | appos |
| 17 | Journal | Journal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lore | flat |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Folk | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 story | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 21 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Maiden | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sea | punct |
| 23 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 story | compound |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tales | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 third | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Folk | the Maiden story | 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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