Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 4
For it was thought that the old ruined church was haunted, and that fearsome things were to be seen there at night.
What happens: think, ruin, haunt, see · To what, where: reward, old ruined church, that · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 thought | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux:pass |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 haunted | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 church | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 church | amod |
| 8 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 church | amod |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 haunted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 haunted | aux:pass |
| 11 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seen | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | fearsome | fearsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | conj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 seen | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · passive | reward | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | haunt | past · passive | the old ruined church | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | see | past · passive | that | there | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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