Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 2

W. R. Spencer, "Beth Gelert, or the Grave of the Greyhound," first printed privately as a broadsheet in 1800 when it was composed ("August 11, 1800, Dolymalynllyn" is the colophon).

Who acts: W. · What happens: print, compose, be · To what, where: 1800, broadsheet, colophon

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 (W.), 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	W.	W.	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 colophon	nsubj
2	R.	R.	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 W.	flat
3	Spencer	Spencer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 W.	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Gelert	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Gelert	punct
6	Beth	Beth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Gelert	compound
7	Gelert	Gelert	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 W.	list
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Grave	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 Grave	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Grave	det
11	Grave	Grave	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 W.	list
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Greyhound	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Greyhound	det
14	Greyhound	Greyhound	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Grave	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 printed	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 printed	punct
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 printed	advmod
18	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 W.	parataxis
19	privately	privately	ADV	_	18 printed	advmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 broadsheet	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 broadsheet	det
22	broadsheet	broadsheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 printed	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 1800	case
24	1800	1800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 printed	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 composed	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 composed	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 composed	aux:pass
28	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 printed	conj
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 11	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 11	punct
31	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 11	nmod:unmarked
32	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 composed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 1800	punct
34	1800	1800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 11	flat
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Dolymalynllyn	punct
36	Dolymalynllyn	Dolymalynllyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 composed	parataxis
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Dolymalynllyn	punct
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 colophon	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 colophon	det
40	colophon	colophon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
41	)	)	PUNCT	_	40 colophon	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 colophon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	print	participle			1800	as a broadsheet; first, privately property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1800=Destination
2	compose	past · passive		broadsheet		11 August obl	tree rules
3	is a	present	W.	the colophon			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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