Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 88
This is probably another case of adapting one tradition to another.
Who acts: This, case · What happens: be, adapt · To what, where: case, one tradition, another
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, case), 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 | 5 case | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 case | cop |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 case | advmod |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 case | det |
| 5 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 adapting | mark |
| 7 | adapting | adapt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 case | acl |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tradition | nummod |
| 9 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adapting | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 another | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 tradition | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 case | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | another case | probably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | adapt | gerund | another case not said here | one tradition | to another goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent tradition=Patient to another=Goal |
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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