Celtic Fairy Tales, XIX. Fair, Brown, and Trembling., sentence 5
Miss Roalfe Cox is about to publish for the Folk-Lore Society a whole volume of variants of the Cinderella group of stories, which are remarkably well represented in these isles, nearly a dozen different versions being known in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
Who acts: Miss, Cinderella group · What happens: be, publish, represent, know, vary · To what, where: stories, dozen different versions, England
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 (Miss, Cinderella group), 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 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 about | nsubj |
| 2 | Roalfe | Roalfe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Miss | flat |
| 3 | Cox | Cox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Miss | flat |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 about | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 publish | mark |
| 7 | publish | publish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 about | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Society | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Society | det |
| 10 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Society | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Folk | punct |
| 12 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Society | compound |
| 13 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 publish | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 volume | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 volume | amod |
| 16 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Society | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 variants | case |
| 18 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 volume | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 group | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 group | det |
| 21 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 group | compound |
| 22 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 variants | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 stories | case |
| 24 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 group | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 represented | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 represented | aux:pass |
| 28 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | _ | 30 represented | advmod |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 represented | advmod |
| 30 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 stories | acl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 isles | case |
| 32 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 isles | det |
| 33 | isles | isle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 represented | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 versions | punct |
| 35 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 37 dozen | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 dozen | det |
| 37 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 versions | nummod |
| 38 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 versions | amod |
| 39 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 isles | nmod |
| 40 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 known | aux:pass |
| 41 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 versions | acl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 England | case |
| 43 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 known | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Ireland | punct |
| 45 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 England | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Scotland | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Scotland | cc |
| 48 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Society | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Miss | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | publish | to-infinitive | Miss not said here | for the Folk Lore Society and Scotland | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for society=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | represent | present · passive | stories | in this isles dozen different versions; remarkably, well property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in isle=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | know | gerund · passive | dozen different versions not said here | England and Ireland | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | vary | the Cinderella group of stories | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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