Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 19
The hideous carlin and her three giant sons is also a common form in Celtic.
Who acts: hideous carlin · What happens: be · To what, where: common form, Celtic
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 (hideous carlin), 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 carlin | det |
| 2 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carlin | amod |
| 3 | carlin | carlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 form | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sons | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sons | nummod |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sons | amod |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carlin | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 form | cop |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 form | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 form | det |
| 12 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 form | amod |
| 13 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Celtic | case |
| 15 | Celtic | Celtic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 form | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the hideous carlin and Curtin's three giant sons | a common form | Celtic | 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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