Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIII. Andrew Coffey., sentence 6
The most effective ghoul story in existence is Lover's "Brown Man."
Who acts: effective ghoul story · What happens: be · To what, where: Brown Man
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: who acts (effective ghoul story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 effective | advmod |
| 3 | effective | effective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 4 | ghoul | ghoul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | compound |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Man | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 existence | case |
| 7 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Man | cop |
| 9 | Lover | Lover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Man | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Lover | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Man | punct |
| 12 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Man | amod |
| 13 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Man | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the effective ghoul story in existence | Lover's Brown Man | 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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