Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 47

Mr. Baring-Gould mentions that the legend is told of an ordinary tombstone, with a knight and a greyhound, in Abergavenny Church; while the Fable of Cattwg is told of a man in Abergarwan.

Who acts: Baring · What happens: mention, tell · To what, where: legend, Fable · Speech: someone speaks here

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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Baring	nmod:desc
2	Baring	Baring	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mentions	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Baring	punct
4	Gould	Gould	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Baring	flat
5	mentions	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 legend	det
8	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mentions	advcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 tombstone	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tombstone	det
13	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tombstone	amod
14	tombstone	tombstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knight	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 knight	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 knight	det
18	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 greyhound	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 greyhound	det
21	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knight	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Church	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 Church	case
24	Abergavenny	Abergavenny	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Church	compound
25	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 knight	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 told	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Fable	det
29	Fable	Fable	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 told	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Cattwg	case
31	Cattwg	Cattwg	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Fable	nmod
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 told	aux:pass
33	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mentions	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 man	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 told	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 Abergarwan	case
38	Abergarwan	Abergarwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 man	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mentions	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mention speech: other	present	Baring Mr.			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive		the legend	of a ordinary tombstone; with a knight in Abergavenny Church and a greyhound	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	present · passive		the Fable of Cattwg	of a man in Abergarwan	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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