Celtic Fairy Tales, XXV. Brewery of Eggshells., sentence 5
Mr. Hartland, in his _Science of Fairy Tales_, 113-6, gives the European parallels.
Who acts: Hartland · What happens: give · To what, where: European parallels
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 (Hartland), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hartland | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Hartland | Hartland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Science | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Science | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Science | nmod:poss |
| 6 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Science | compound |
| 7 | Science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hartland | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Tales | case |
| 9 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Tales | compound |
| 10 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Science | nmod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tales | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 113-6 | punct |
| 13 | 113-6 | 113-6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Tales | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hartland | punct |
| 15 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 parallels | det |
| 17 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 parallels | amod |
| 18 | parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gives | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Hartland Mr. | the European parallels | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parallel=Theme |
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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