Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 126
You'll have heard, like me, that the Brown Lake leads to the Land of Promise.
Who acts: You, Brown Lake · What happens: hear, lead
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Brown Lake), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 me | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leads | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 leads | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lake | det |
| 11 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lake | compound |
| 12 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 leads | nsubj |
| 13 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Land | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Land | det |
| 16 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leads | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Promise | case |
| 18 | Promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Land | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | future · perfect | You | like me | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lead | present | the Brown Lake | to the Land of Promise | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to land=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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