Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 57
No reference was made in the first edition to the Gellert legend, but in the second edition of 1794, p. 75, a note was added telling the legend, "There is a general tradition in North Wales that a wolf had entered the house of Prince Llewellyn.
Who acts: telling, general tradition · What happens: make, add, tell, be, enter · To what, where: reference, first edition, p., second edition, legend, general tradition · 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 (telling, general tradition), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 reference | det |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 edition | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edition | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 edition | amod |
| 8 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 legend | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 legend | det |
| 11 | Gellert | Gellert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 legend | compound |
| 12 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 edition | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 added | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 added | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 edition | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 edition | det |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 edition | amod |
| 18 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 added | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 1794 | case |
| 20 | 1794 | 1794 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 edition | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 edition | punct |
| 22 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 added | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 p. | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 note | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 note | det |
| 26 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 p. | appos |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 added | aux:pass |
| 28 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | parataxis |
| 29 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 tradition | csubj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 legend | det |
| 31 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 telling | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 is | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 is | punct |
| 34 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 is | expl |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 tradition | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 tradition | det |
| 37 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tradition | amod |
| 38 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 added | parataxis |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 Wales | case |
| 40 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Wales | compound |
| 41 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 tradition | nmod |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 entered | mark |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 wolf | det |
| 44 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 entered | aux |
| 46 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 tradition | acl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 house | det |
| 48 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 entered | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Llewellyn | case |
| 50 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Llewellyn | nmod:desc |
| 51 | Llewellyn | Llewellyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 house | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | no reference | the first edition to the Gellert legend | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past · passive | p. | the second edition of 1794 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the legend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent legend=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | telling | a general tradition | North Wales | tree rules | |||
| 5 | enter in a quote | past · perfect · passive | a general tradition not said here | a wolf | 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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