Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 17
The trial of the sword occurs in the saga of Sigurd, yet it is also frequent in Celtic saga and folk-tales (see Mr. Nutt's note, MacInnes' _Tales_, 473, and add.
Who acts: trial, Nutt, MacInnes · What happens: occur, be, see, add, try, note · To what, where: saga, Celtic saga, note, sword · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (trial, Nutt, MacInnes), 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 trial | det |
| 2 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sword | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trial | nmod |
| 6 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 saga | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 saga | det |
| 9 | saga | saga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 occurs | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sigurd | case |
| 11 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saga | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 frequent | punct |
| 13 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 17 frequent | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 frequent | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 frequent | cop |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 frequent | advmod |
| 17 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 occurs | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 saga | case |
| 19 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 saga | amod |
| 20 | saga | saga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frequent | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tales | cc |
| 22 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tales | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 folk | punct |
| 24 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saga | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 occurs | parataxis |
| 27 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Nutt | nmod:desc |
| 28 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 note | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Nutt | case |
| 30 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tales | punct |
| 32 | MacInnes | MacInnes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 32 MacInnes | case |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tales | punct |
| 35 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 note | appos |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tales | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 473 | punct |
| 38 | 473 | 473 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 note | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 add | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 add | cc |
| 41 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | the trial of the sword | the saga of Sigurd | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in saga=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | trial | Celtic saga and folk tales | frequent property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Nutt Mr.'s note | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | infinitive | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | try | the sword | nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | note | Nutt Mr. | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | tell | MacInnes | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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