Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 14
Koehler's elaborate list of parallels attached to Mr. Lang's variant in _Revue Celtique_, iii.
Who acts: parallels, Koehler · What happens: attach, list · To what, where: variant, parallels
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 (parallels, Koehler), 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 | Koehler | Koehler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 list | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Koehler | case |
| 3 | elaborate | elaborate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 list | amod |
| 4 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 parallels | case |
| 6 | parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 list | nmod |
| 7 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 parallels | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 variant | case |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Lang | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 variant | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Lang | case |
| 12 | variant | variant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Revue | case |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 in | punct |
| 15 | Revue | Revue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 variant | obl |
| 16 | Celtique | Celtique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Revue | flat |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Revue | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 iii | punct |
| 19 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 15 Revue | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 list | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | participle · passive | parallels not said here | variant | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | list | Koehler | parallels | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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