Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 91
Wales_, p. 125, the only authority for the cairn now shown is that of the landlord of the Goat Inn, "who felt compelled by the cravings of tourists to invent a grave."
Who acts: Wales · What happens: show, be, compel, invent, crave · To what, where: cairn, grave, tourists
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 (Wales), 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 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wales | punct |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 p. | punct |
| 4 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wales | conj |
| 5 | 125 | 125 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 p. | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 authority | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 authority | det |
| 8 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 authority | amod |
| 9 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 p. | appos |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 cairn | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cairn | det |
| 12 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 authority | nmod |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 shown | advmod |
| 14 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cairn | acl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 felt | cop |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 felt | mark |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 landlord | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 landlord | det |
| 19 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 felt | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Inn | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Inn | det |
| 22 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Inn | compound |
| 23 | Inn | Inn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 landlord | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 landlord | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 felt | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 felt | nsubj |
| 27 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 felt | xcomp |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 cravings | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cravings | det |
| 31 | cravings | craving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 compelled | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 tourists | case |
| 33 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 cravings | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 invent | mark |
| 35 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 compelled | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 grave | det |
| 37 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 invent | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 felt | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | participle | the cairn not said here | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Wales and p. | of the landlord of the Goat Inn; feel property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | compel in a quote | participle | Wales and p. not said here | by the cravings of tourists | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | invent in a quote | to-infinitive | Wales and p. not said here | a grave | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Result | ||||
| 5 | crave in a quote | tourists | nom craving «feeling transitive»: of=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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