Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 29
Her husband forgot, and touched her rather roughly on the shoulder, saying, "Is this a time for laughter?"
Who acts: husband · What happens: forget, touch, say, be · To what, where: shoulder, time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 touched | cc |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgot | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 shoulder | advmod |
| 9 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 12 shoulder | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 shoulder | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shoulder | det |
| 12 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 touched | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 17 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | cop |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 time | det |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saying | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 laughter | case |
| 22 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 time | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | blow's husband | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | touch | past | blow's husband not said here | blow's shoulder | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shoulder=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | gerund | blow's husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this time | for laughter | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/11/29/