Celtic Fairy Tales, XXII. Story of Ivan., sentence 2
I have used the English version contained in _Blackwood's Magazine_ as long ago as May 1818.
Who acts: I · What happens: use, contain · To what, where: English version, Magazine
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 used | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | aux |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 version | det |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 version | amod |
| 6 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obj |
| 7 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 version | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Magazine | case |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 in | punct |
| 10 | Blackwood | Blackwood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Magazine | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Blackwood | case |
| 12 | Magazine | Magazine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 contained | obl |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 long | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 ago | advmod |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 used | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 May | case |
| 18 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obl |
| 19 | 1818 | 1818 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 May | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · perfect | I | the English version | may | ago property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient | ||
| 2 | contain | participle | the English version not said here | Blackwood's Magazine | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in magazine=Location |
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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