Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 35
From the _Seven Sages_ it was taken into the particular branch of the _Gesta Romanorum_ current in England and known as the English _Gesta_, where it occurs as c. xxxii., "Story of Folliculus."
Who acts: Seven Sages, English · What happens: _, take, know, occur · To what, where: it, particular branch, Story
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 (Seven Sages, English), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 6 _ | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 _ | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 _ | punct |
| 4 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Sages | nummod |
| 5 | Sages | sage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 _ | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux:pass |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 _ | ccomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 branch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 branch | det |
| 12 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 branch | amod |
| 13 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 current | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 current | det |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 current | punct |
| 17 | Gesta | Gesta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 current | compound |
| 18 | Romanorum | Romanorum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Gesta | flat |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 current | punct |
| 20 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 branch | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 England | case |
| 22 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 current | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 known | cc |
| 24 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 taken | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 English | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 English | det |
| 27 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 known | obl |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 English | punct |
| 29 | Gesta | Gesta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 English | flat |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 occurs | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 occurs | advmod |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 occurs | nsubj |
| 34 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 _ | parataxis |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 c. | case |
| 36 | c. | c. | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 occurs | obl |
| 37 | xxxii | xxxii | X | Foreign=Yes | 36 c. | flat:foreign |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 occurs | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Story | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Story | punct |
| 41 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 occurs | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Folliculus | case |
| 43 | Folliculus | Folliculus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Story | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 occurs | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | past | Seven Sages | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | it | the particular branch of the Gesta current in England | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into branch=Destination | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | as the English | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as english=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | occur | present | English | Story of Folliculus | as c. | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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