Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 56
The remains of famed Cylart, so faithful and good, The bounds of the cantred conceal; Whenever the doe or the stag he pursued His master was sure of a meal.
Who acts: remains, doe, master · What happens: fame, conceal, pursue, be
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 (remains, doe, master), 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 | 2 remains | det |
| 2 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 conceal | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Cylart | case |
| 4 | famed | fame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Cylart | amod |
| 5 | Cylart | Cylart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remains | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 faithful | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 faithful | advmod |
| 8 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Cylart | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 good | cc |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 faithful | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bounds | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bounds | det |
| 13 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Cylart | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cantred | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cantred | det |
| 16 | cantred | cantred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bounds | nmod |
| 17 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 pursued | punct |
| 19 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 pursued | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 doe | det |
| 21 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pursued | nsubj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 stag | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stag | det |
| 24 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 doe | conj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pursued | nsubj |
| 26 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 conceal | conj |
| 27 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 master | nmod:poss |
| 28 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sure | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sure | cop |
| 30 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pursued | ccomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 meal | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 meal | det |
| 33 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sure | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 conceal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fame | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | conceal | infinitive | the remains of famed Cylart | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pursue | past | the doe or the stag | whenever property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Parai'r's master | of a meal; sure property | 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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