Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 20
I hope to have another occasion for dealing with this most interesting of all folk-tales in the detail it deserves.
Who acts: I, occasion · What happens: hope, have, deal, deserve · To what, where: occasion, detail
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 (I, occasion), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hope | xcomp |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 occasion | det |
| 6 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 dealing | mark |
| 8 | dealing | deal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 have | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 12 interesting | mark |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 interesting | nsubj |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 interesting | advmod |
| 12 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dealing | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tales | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 tales | det |
| 15 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tales | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 folk | punct |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 interesting | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 detail | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 detail | det |
| 20 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tales | nmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 deserves | nsubj |
| 22 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 detail | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | another occasion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient | ||||
| 3 | deal | gerund | I not said here | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | deserve | present | occasion | the detail not said here | 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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