Celtic Fairy Tales, XXII. Story of Ivan., sentence 9

It was derived, in all probability, from the _Gesta Romanorum_, c. 103, where two of the three pieces of advice are "Avoid a byeway," "Beware of a house where the housewife is younger than her husband."

Who acts: two, housewife · What happens: derive, be, beware · To what, where: story, probability · 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 (two, housewife), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 derived	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 derived	aux:pass
3	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 probability	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 probability	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 probability	det
7	probability	probability	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 derived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 103	punct
9	from	from	ADP	_	17 103	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 103	det
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 103	punct
12	Gesta	Gesta	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 103	nsubj
13	Romanorum	Romanorum	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Gesta	flat
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 Gesta	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 103	punct
16	c.	c.	X	Foreign=Yes	17 103	nsubj
17	103	103	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 derived	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Avoid	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 Avoid	advmod
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 Avoid	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 pieces	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pieces	det
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 pieces	nummod
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 two	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 advice	case
26	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pieces	nmod
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 Avoid	cop
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Avoid	punct
29	Avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 103	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 byeway	det
31	byeway	byeway	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Avoid	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Avoid	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Avoid	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 Beware	punct
35	Beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 103	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 house	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 house	det
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Beware	obl
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 younger	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 housewife	det
41	housewife	housewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 younger	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 younger	cop
43	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 house	advcl
44	than	than	ADP	_	46 husband	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 husband	nmod:poss
46	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 younger	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 derived	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 derived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	derive	past · passive		story	all probability	from the 103	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from 103=Material
2	is in a quote	present	two of the three pieces of advice			avoid property	tree rules
3	beware in a quote	infinitive				of a house	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	present	the housewife			than housewife's husband; young property	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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