Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIII. Andrew Coffey., sentence 1
_Source_.--From the late D. W. Logie, written down by Mr. Alfred Nutt.
What happens: write down · To what, where: late W. Logie
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Andrew Coffey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 10 Logie | punct |
| 5 | From | from | ADP | _ | 10 Logie | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Logie | det |
| 7 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Logie | amod |
| 8 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 W. | compound |
| 9 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Logie | compound |
| 10 | Logie | Logie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Source | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 written | punct |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Logie | acl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 written | compound:prt |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Alfred | case |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Alfred | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 written | obl:agent |
| 17 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Alfred | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | participle | the late W. Logie not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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