Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 3
I have omitted the births of the animal comrades and transposed the carlin to the middle of the tale.
Who acts: I · What happens: omit, transpose · To what, where: births, carlin
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 omitted | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 omitted | aux |
| 3 | omitted | omit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 births | det |
| 5 | births | birth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 omitted | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 comrades | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 comrades | det |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comrades | compound |
| 9 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 births | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 transposed | cc |
| 11 | transposed | transpose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 omitted | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 carlin | det |
| 13 | carlin | carlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transposed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 middle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 middle | det |
| 16 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transposed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tale | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tale | det |
| 19 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 middle | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 omitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | omit | present · perfect | I | the births of the animal comrades | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | transpose | past | I not said here | the carlin | to the middle of the tale | 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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