Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 61
Prince Llewellyn ab Jorwerth married Joan, [natural] daughter of King John, by _Agatha_, daughter of Robert Ferrers, Earl of Derby; and the dog was a present to the prince from his father-in-law about the year 1205."
Who acts: Llewellyn ab, dog · What happens: marry, be · To what, where: Joan, present, law
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 (Llewellyn ab, dog), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Llewellyn | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Llewellyn | Llewellyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ab | compound |
| 3 | ab | ab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | nsubj |
| 4 | Jorwerth | Jorwerth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ab | appos |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Joan | Joan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 daughter | punct |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 natural | punct |
| 9 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 daughter | amod |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 natural | punct |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 John | case |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 John | nmod:desc |
| 14 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Agatha | punct |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Agatha | case |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 by | punct |
| 18 | Agatha | Agatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obl |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Agatha | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 daughter | punct |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Agatha | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Ferrers | case |
| 23 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ferrers | compound |
| 24 | Ferrers | Ferrer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 daughter | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Earl | punct |
| 26 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Agatha | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Derby | case |
| 28 | Derby | Derby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Earl | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 present | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 present | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dog | det |
| 32 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 present | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 present | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 present | det |
| 35 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 prince | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 prince | det |
| 38 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 present | nmod |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 law | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 law | nmod:poss |
| 41 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 law | nsubj |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 law | punct |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 law | case |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 in | punct |
| 45 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 present | nmod |
| 46 | about | about | ADP | _ | 48 year | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 year | det |
| 48 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 law | nmod |
| 49 | 1205 | 1205 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 year | flat |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 present | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | Llewellyn ab | Joan | by Agatha and Earl of Derby; natural daughter of John King obl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joan=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the dog | a present | Prince's law about the year | to the prince | 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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