Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 48
So widespread and well known was the legend that it was in Richard III's time adopted as the national crest.
Who acts: legend · What happens: know, be, adopt · To what, where: widespread legend, time
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 (legend), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 widespread | advmod |
| 2 | widespread | widespread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legend | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 known | cc |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 widespread | conj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 legend | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legend | det |
| 8 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 time | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 time | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 13 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 time | nmod:poss |
| 14 | III | III | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Richard | flat |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Richard | case |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legend | conj |
| 17 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 time | acl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 crest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crest | det |
| 20 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crest | amod |
| 21 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 adopted | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 legend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the widespread legend and Richard's time | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | legend | in Richard's time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | adopt | participle | Richard's time not said here | as the national crest | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as crest=Attribute |
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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