Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 16
And strangest of all, the story is practically the same as the classical myth of Jason and Medea.
Who acts: strangest story · What happens: be
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 (strangest 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 strangest | cc |
| 2 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 story | amod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 strangest | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 strangest | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 same | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 same | cop |
| 9 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 11 same | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 same | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 myth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 myth | det |
| 14 | classical | classical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 myth | amod |
| 15 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 same | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Jason | case |
| 17 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 myth | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Medea | cc |
| 19 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Jason | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the strangest story | as the classical myth of Jason and Medea; practically, same 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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