Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 13
Yet its main incidents occur with frequency in Continental folk-tales.
Who acts: main incidents · What happens: occur · To what, where: Continental folk tales
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 (main incidents), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 occur | cc |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 incidents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 incidents | amod |
| 4 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 occur | nsubj |
| 5 | occur | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 frequency | case |
| 7 | frequency | frequency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occur | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tales | case |
| 9 | Continental | continental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tales | amod |
| 10 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tales | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 folk | punct |
| 12 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 occur | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 occur | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | story's main incidents | Continental folk tales | with frequency | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tale=Location |
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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