Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 142
When they came to the Brown Lake, the sky was full of little white clouds, and, if the sky was full, the lake was as full.
Who acts: cattle, sky, lake · What happens: come, be · To what, where: Brown Lake
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 (cattle, sky, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Lake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lake | det |
| 6 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lake | compound |
| 7 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 full | cop |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 clouds | case |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 clouds | amod |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 clouds | amod |
| 16 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 full | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 full | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 and | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 full | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sky | det |
| 22 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 full | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 full | cop |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 full | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 full | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lake | det |
| 27 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 full | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 full | cop |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 full | case |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | cattle | the Brown Lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the sky | of little white clouds; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the sky | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the lake | full property | 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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