Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 24
Unfortunately it is not complete, and the Sea-Maiden incident is only to be found in a British Museum MS. of about 1300.
Who acts: MS. · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: Sea Maiden incident, Museum MS.
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 (MS.), 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 | Unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 5 complete | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 complete | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 complete | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 complete | advmod |
| 5 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 incident | det |
| 9 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 incident | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sea | punct |
| 11 | Maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 incident | amod |
| 12 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 found | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 found | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 found | aux:pass |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 complete | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 MS. | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 MS. | det |
| 20 | British | British | PROPN | _ | 21 Museum | compound |
| 21 | Museum | Museum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 MS. | compound |
| 22 | MS. | MS. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 1300 | case |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 1300 | advmod |
| 25 | 1300 | 1300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 MS. | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 complete | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | MS. | complete, unfortunately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present · passive | the Sea Maiden incident | a Museum MS. of 1300 | find property | 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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