Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 22
There are two forms that have reached the West, the first being that of an animal saving men at the cost of its own life.
Who acts: two forms, animal · What happens: be, reach, save, cost · To what, where: two forms, that, men, cost, own life
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 (two forms, animal), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 forms | nummod |
| 4 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | aux |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 forms | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 West | det |
| 9 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 that | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 that | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 that | advmod |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 that | cop |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 forms | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 animal | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 animal | det |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 that | nmod |
| 18 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 animal | acl |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 saving | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 cost | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cost | det |
| 22 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saving | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 life | amod |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cost | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | two forms | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | present · perfect · passive | two forms | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary west=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | that | of a animal | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | save | gerund | a animal not said here | men | the cost of animal's own life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent man=Theme at cost=Asset | |||
| 5 | cost | animal's own life | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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