Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 59
This so grieved the Prince, that he erected a tomb over his faithful dog's grave; where afterwards the parish church was built and goes by that name--_Bedd Cilhart_, or the grave of Kill-hart, in _Carnarvonshire_.
Who acts: This, Prince · What happens: grieve, erect, build, go · To what, where: Prince, tomb, grave, parish church
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 (This, Prince), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 grieved | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 grieved | advmod |
| 3 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grieved | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 erected | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 erected | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 erected | nsubj |
| 9 | erected | erect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grieved | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tomb | det |
| 11 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 erected | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 grave | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dog | nmod:poss |
| 14 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dog | amod |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grave | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 dog | case |
| 17 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 erected | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 built | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 built | advmod |
| 20 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 25 built | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 church | det |
| 22 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 church | compound |
| 23 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 built | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 built | aux:pass |
| 25 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grieved | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 goes | cc |
| 27 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 built | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 name | case |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 name | det |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 goes | obl |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 Bedd | punct |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Bedd | punct |
| 33 | Bedd | Bedd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 built | obl |
| 34 | Cilhart | Cilhart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Bedd | flat |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Bedd | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 grave | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 grave | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 grave | det |
| 39 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Bedd | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 hart | case |
| 41 | Kill | Kill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 hart | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Kill | punct |
| 43 | hart | hart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 grave | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Carnarvonshire | punct |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 Carnarvonshire | case |
| 46 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 45 in | punct |
| 47 | Carnarvonshire | Carnarvonshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 built | parataxis |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 47 Carnarvonshire | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past | This | the Prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | erect | past | Prince | a tomb | Prince's faithful dog's grave | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Product | |||
| 3 | build | past · passive | the parish church | Bedd obl; afterwards property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | go | present | by that name | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by name=Location |
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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