Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 4
Mr. Batten has considerately idealised the Sea-Maiden in his frontispiece.
Who acts: Batten · What happens: idealise · To what, where: Sea Maiden, frontispiece
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 (Batten), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Batten | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Batten | Batten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 idealised | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 idealised | aux |
| 4 | considerately | considerately | ADV | _ | 5 idealised | advmod |
| 5 | idealised | idealise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Maiden | det |
| 7 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Maiden | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sea | punct |
| 9 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 idealised | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 frontispiece | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 frontispiece | nmod:poss |
| 12 | frontispiece | frontispiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Maiden | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 idealised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | idealise | present · perfect | Batten Mr. | the Sea Maiden | Batten's frontispiece | considerately 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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