Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 9
_Parallels_.--The early part of the story occurs in No. xv., "Shee an Gannon," and the last part in No. xix., "Fair, Brown, and Trembling" (both from Curtin), Campbell's No. 1. "
Who acts: early part · What happens: occur, tremble · To what, where: Parallels, No. xv
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 (early part), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Brown | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 occurs | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 11 occurs | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 occurs | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 11 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Parallels | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 xv | case |
| 13 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 14 xv | compound |
| 14 | xv | xv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 occurs | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Shee | punct |
| 18 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | flat |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Gannon | det |
| 20 | Gannon | Gannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 part | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 part | det |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 part | amod |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 xix | case |
| 28 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 29 xix | compound |
| 29 | xix | xix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Brown | punct |
| 33 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Brown | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Fair | punct |
| 35 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Trembling | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Trembling | cc |
| 38 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 Brown | parataxis |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Trembling | punct |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 Curtin | punct |
| 41 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 Curtin | det |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 Curtin | case |
| 43 | Curtin | Curtin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Brown | obl |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 Curtin | punct |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 No. | punct |
| 46 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 No. | nmod:poss |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 Campbell | case |
| 48 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 43 Curtin | appos |
| 49 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 No. | flat |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 Brown | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Brown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | the early part of the story | Parallels a Gannon and the last part in No. xix not said here | No. xv | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tremble in a quote | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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