Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 26
So he held his trews tight, and let no darkness grow under his feet, until he had reached Saddell Castle.
Who acts: tailor, darkness · What happens: hold, let, grow, reach · To what, where: trews, feet, Saddell Castle
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, darkness), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 held | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trews | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trews | trew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 held | obj |
| 6 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 3 held | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | parataxis |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 darkness | det |
| 11 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grow | nsubj |
| 12 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | xcomp |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grow | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reached | punct |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 reached | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 reached | aux |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 let | parataxis |
| 21 | Saddell | Saddell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Castle | compound |
| 22 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | tailor | tailor's trews | tight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trew=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | grow | present | no darkness | tailor's feet | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location | ||||
| 4 | reach | past · perfect | tailor | Saddell Castle | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=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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