Celtic Fairy Tales, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., sentence 4
_Parallels_.--"The Lad with the Skin Coverings" is a popular Celtic figure, _cf.
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: be · To what, where: popular Celtic figure
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 figure | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lad | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lad | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lad | det |
| 7 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Coverings | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Coverings | det |
| 10 | Skin | Skin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Coverings | compound |
| 11 | Coverings | Coverings | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lad | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 figure | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 figure | det |
| 15 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 figure | amod |
| 16 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 figure | amod |
| 17 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cf | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 cf | punct |
| 20 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 figure | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 figure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Parallels the Lad with the Skin Coverings | a popular Celtic figure and cf | 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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