Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 25
The _Culex_ attributed to Virgil seems to be another variant of this.
Who acts: Culex · What happens: attribute, seem, be · To what, where: Culex, Virgil, variant
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 (Culex), 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 Culex | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Culex | punct |
| 3 | Culex | culex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seems | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 attributed | punct |
| 5 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Culex | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Virgil | case |
| 7 | Virgil | Virgil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 attributed | obl |
| 8 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 variant | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 variant | cop |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 variant | det |
| 12 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seems | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 variant | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | participle | the Culex not said here | Virgil | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | the Culex | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the Culex not said here | another variant | of this | 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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