Celtic Fairy Tales, XXII. Story of Ivan., sentence 1

_Source_.--Lluyd, _Archaeologia Britannia_, 1707, the first comparative Celtic grammar and the finest piece of work in comparative philology hitherto done in England, contains this tale as a specimen of Cornish then still spoken in Cornwall.

Who acts: Source · What happens: do, contain, speak · To what, where: comparative philology, England, tale, Cornwall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Story of Ivan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Source), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
2	Source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 contains	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	33 contains	punct
5	Lluyd	Lluyd	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 contains	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Archaeologia	punct
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Archaeologia	punct
8	Archaeologia	Archaeologia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Lluyd	conj
9	Britannia	Britannia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Archaeologia	flat
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Archaeologia	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 1707	punct
12	1707	1707	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 Archaeologia	list
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grammar	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grammar	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 grammar	amod
16	comparative	comparative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grammar	amod
17	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grammar	amod
18	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Archaeologia	appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 piece	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 piece	det
21	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 piece	amod
22	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grammar	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 work	case
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 piece	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 philology	case
26	comparative	comparative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 philology	amod
27	philology	philology	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 work	nmod
28	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	29 done	advmod
29	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 philology	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 England	case
31	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 done	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Lluyd	punct
33	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 tale	det
35	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 contains	obj
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 specimen	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 specimen	det
38	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tale	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Cornish	case
40	Cornish	Cornish	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 specimen	nmod
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 spoken	advmod
42	still	still	ADV	_	43 spoken	advmod
43	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 contains	advcl
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 Cornwall	case
45	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 spoken	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 contains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle		comparative philology not said here	England		hitherto property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	contain	present	Source	this tale			as a specimen of Cornish	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme
3	speak speech: other	participle	Source not said here		Cornwall	then; still		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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