Celtic Fairy Tales, XXV. Brewery of Eggshells., sentence 1
_Source_.--From the _Cambrian Quarterly Magazine_, 1830, vol. ii. p. 86; it is stated to be literally translated from the Welsh.
Who acts: Welsh · What happens: state, translate · To what, where: vol.
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. Brewery of Eggshells.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Welsh), 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 | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 2 | Source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 10 Magazine | punct |
| 5 | From | from | ADP | _ | 10 Magazine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Magazine | det |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Magazine | punct |
| 8 | Cambrian | Cambrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Magazine | compound |
| 9 | Quarterly | Quarterly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Magazine | compound |
| 10 | Magazine | Magazine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Source | nmod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Magazine | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 1830 | punct |
| 13 | 1830 | 1830 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Magazine | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 vol. | punct |
| 15 | vol. | vol. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Magazine | appos |
| 16 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 15 vol. | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 vol. | punct |
| 18 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 vol. | appos |
| 19 | 86 | 86 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 p. | flat |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stated | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 stated | aux:pass |
| 23 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Source | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 translated | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 translated | aux:pass |
| 26 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 27 translated | advmod |
| 27 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 stated | advcl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 Welsh | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Welsh | det |
| 30 | Welsh | Welsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 translated | obl:agent |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present · passive | vol. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | translate | to-infinitive · passive | the Welsh | literally property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=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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