Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 9
_ i. 316), and Mr. Lang's Morayshire Tale, "Nicht Nought Nothing" (see _Eng.
What happens: see
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: 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 316 | punct |
| 2 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 316 | nsubj |
| 3 | 316 | 316 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 316 | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Eng | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Eng | cc |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lang | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Eng | compound |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Lang | case |
| 10 | Morayshire | Morayshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lang | flat |
| 11 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lang | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nothing | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nothing | punct |
| 14 | Nicht | Nicht | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Nothing | nsubj |
| 15 | Nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 16 Nothing | compound |
| 16 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 Lang | appos |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nothing | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 Nothing | parataxis |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lang | punct |
| 21 | Eng | Eng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 316 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 316 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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