Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 10
Fairy Tales_, No. vii.), no less than sixteen variants found among the Celts.
Who acts: sixteen variants · What happens: find · To what, where: Celts
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sixteen variants), 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 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tales | compound |
| 2 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tales | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vii | punct |
| 5 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 6 vii | compound |
| 6 | vii | vii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tales | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tales | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tales | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 variants | punct |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 sixteen | advmod |
| 11 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 13 sixteen | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 less | fixed |
| 13 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 variants | nummod |
| 14 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Tales | conj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 variants | acl |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 Celts | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Celts | det |
| 18 | Celts | Celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 found | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tales | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | sixteen variants not said here | the Celts | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celt=Topic |
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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