Celtic Fairy Tales, XIX. Fair, Brown, and Trembling., sentence 4
The earlier portion is a Cinderella tale (on which see the late Mr. Ralston's article in _Nineteenth Century_, Nov. 1879, and Mr. Lang's treatment in his Perrault).
Who acts: earlier portion, Cinderella tale, late Ralston, Lang · What happens: be, see, article, treat · To what, where: Cinderella tale, article, Perrault
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Fair, Brown, and Trembling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earlier portion, Cinderella tale, late Ralston, Lang), 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 portion | det |
| 2 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 portion | amod |
| 3 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tale | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tale | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tale | det |
| 6 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tale | compound |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tale | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ralston | det |
| 13 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Ralston | amod |
| 14 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ralston | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Ralston | Ralston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 article | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Ralston | case |
| 17 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Century | case |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | Nineteenth | nineteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Century | amod |
| 21 | Century | Century | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Nov. | punct |
| 24 | Nov. | November | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 7 tale | appos |
| 25 | 1879 | 1879 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 Nov. | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 treatment | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 treatment | cc |
| 28 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Lang | nmod:desc |
| 29 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 treatment | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Lang | case |
| 31 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tale | appos |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Perrault | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 Perrault | nmod:poss |
| 34 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 treatment | nmod |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 treatment | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the earlier portion | a Cinderella tale | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | a Cinderella tale | the late Ralston Mr.'s article | in Nineteenth Century | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer article=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | article | the late Ralston Mr. | nom article «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | treat | Lang Mr. | Lang's Perrault | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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