Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 33
The very letters that have spread through all Europe except Russia, are to be traced to the script of these Irish monks: why not certain folk-tales?
What happens: spread, trace, script · To what, where: letters, Europe, Irish monks
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: 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 letters | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 letters | advmod |
| 3 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | aux |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 letters | acl:relcl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 Europe | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 Europe | det |
| 9 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obl |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 11 Russia | case |
| 11 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 letters | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 traced | aux:pass |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 traced | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 traced | aux:pass |
| 16 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 script | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 script | det |
| 19 | script | script | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 traced | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 monks | case |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 monks | det |
| 22 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 monks | amod |
| 23 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 script | nmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 why | punct |
| 25 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 traced | conj |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 certain | advmod |
| 27 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tales | amod |
| 28 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tales | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 folk | punct |
| 30 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 why | obj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present · perfect · passive | the letters | all Europe | except Russia | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme through europe=Destination | |||
| 2 | trace | present · passive | the letters | to the script of this Irish monks | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | script | this Irish monks | nom script «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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