Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 14
As is well known, and has been elaborately discussed by Mr. Baring-Gould (_Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_, p. 134 _seq.
Who acts: Baring · What happens: know, discuss
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baring), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 known | mark |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 known | advmod |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 discussed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 discussed | cc |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 discussed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 discussed | aux:pass |
| 9 | elaborately | elaborately | ADV | _ | 10 discussed | advmod |
| 10 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 known | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Baring | case |
| 12 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Baring | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Baring | Baring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 discussed | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Baring | punct |
| 15 | Gould | Gould | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Baring | flat |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 Myths | punct |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Myths | punct |
| 18 | Curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Myths | amod |
| 19 | Myths | Myths | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Baring | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Ages | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Ages | det |
| 22 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ages | flat |
| 23 | Ages | Age | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Myths | nmod |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Baring | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 p. | punct |
| 26 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Baring | conj |
| 27 | 134 | 134 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 p. | flat |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 seq | punct |
| 29 | seq | seq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 p. | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | discuss speech: other | present · perfect · passive | Baring Mr. and p. | elaborately property | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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