Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 6
Spencer states in a note: "The story of this ballad is traditionary in a village at the foot of Snowdon where Llewellyn the Great had a house.
Who acts: Spencer states, Llewellyn · What happens: be, have · To what, where: village, house
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 (Spencer states, Llewellyn), 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 | Spencer | Spencer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 states | compound |
| 2 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 traditionary | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 note | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 note | det |
| 5 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 states | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 traditionary | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 traditionary | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 traditionary | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ballad | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 ballad | det |
| 12 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 traditionary | cop |
| 14 | traditionary | traditionary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 village | det |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 traditionary | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 foot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 foot | det |
| 20 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 village | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Snowdon | case |
| 22 | Snowdon | Snowdon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 foot | nmod |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 had | advmod |
| 24 | Llewellyn | Llewellyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 had | nsubj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Great | det |
| 26 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Llewellyn | flat |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 foot | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 traditionary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Spencer states in a note | a village at the foot of Snowdon | traditionary property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | Llewellyn | a house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
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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