Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 35

Certainly in the form in which it appears in the _Tochmarc Emer_ it is not complete, so that here, as elsewhere, we seem to have an instance of a folk-tale applied to a well-known heroic name, and becoming a hero-tale or saga.

Who acts: it, story, we · What happens: appear, not be, seem, have, apply, know · To what, where: form, instance, folk tale, hero tale

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 (it, story, we), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 form	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 form	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 form	det
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 appears	obl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 appears	nsubj
8	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 form	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 Tochmarc	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tochmarc	det
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 Tochmarc	punct
12	Tochmarc	Tochmarc	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 appears	obl
13	Emer	Emer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Tochmarc	flat
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 complete	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 complete	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 complete	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 complete	advmod
18	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Tochmarc	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 here	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	_	22 here	case
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 complete	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 elsewhere	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 elsewhere	case
25	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	22 here	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seem	punct
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 seem	nsubj
28	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 complete	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 seem	xcomp
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 instance	det
32	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 tale	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 tale	det
35	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tale	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 folk	punct
37	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 instance	nmod
38	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 tale	acl
39	to	to	ADP	_	45 name	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 name	det
41	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 known	advmod
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 well	punct
43	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 name	amod
44	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 name	amod
45	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 applied	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 becoming	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 becoming	cc
48	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 have	advcl
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 tale	det
50	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tale	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 hero	punct
52	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 becoming	xcomp
53	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 saga	cc
54	saga	saga	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tale	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 form	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	present	it		the form	in the Tochmarc	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
2	not is	present	story			complete property	tree rules
3	seem	present	we				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	have	to-infinitive	we not said here	a instance of a folk tale			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Patient
5	apply	participle		a folk tale not said here		to a known heroic name	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	become	gerund	we not said here	a hero tale or saga			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	instance			a folk tale			nom instance «event 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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