Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 4

I have also added a specimen of the humorous end pieces added by Gaelic story-tellers; on these tags see an interesting note in MacDougall's _Tales_, note on p. 112.

Who acts: I · What happens: add, see · To what, where: specimen, humorous end pieces, interesting note, tags

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), 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	4 added	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 added	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 added	advmod
4	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 specimen	det
6	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 added	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pieces	det
9	humorous	humorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pieces	amod
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pieces	compound
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 specimen	nmod
12	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 pieces	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	17 tellers	case
14	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tellers	amod
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tellers	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 story	punct
17	tellers	teller	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 added	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 tags	case
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 tags	det
21	tags	tag	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obl
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 added	parataxis
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 note	det
24	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 note	amod
25	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 Tales	case
27	MacDougall	MacDougall	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Tales	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 MacDougall	case
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 Tales	punct
30	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 note	nmod
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 note	punct
33	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	parataxis
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 p.	case
35	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 note	nmod
36	112	112	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 p.	flat
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present · perfect	I	a specimen of the humorous end pieces			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent specimen=Patient
2	add speech: assert	participle		the humorous end pieces not said here		by Gaelic story tellers	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	see	infinitive		a interesting note	this tags	in MacDougall's Tales	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus

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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