Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 5
The tailor was well aware of this; but he was a sprightly man, and when the laird dared him to make the trews by night in the church, the tailor was not to be daunted, but took it in hand to gain the prize.
Who acts: tailor, laird · What happens: be, dare, make, not be, take, gain · To what, where: sprightly man, tailor, trews, church, hand, prize
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, laird), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aware | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 aware | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 aware | advmod |
| 5 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 aware | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 man | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 man | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | sprightly | sprightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aware | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dared | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 dared | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 laird | det |
| 19 | laird | laird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dared | nsubj |
| 20 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 aware | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dared | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 dared | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 trews | det |
| 25 | trews | trew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 make | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 church | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 church | det |
| 30 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 daunted | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tailor | det |
| 33 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 daunted | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 daunted | cop |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 daunted | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 daunted | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 daunted | aux:pass |
| 38 | daunted | daunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 church | acl:relcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 took | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 took | cc |
| 41 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 aware | parataxis |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 took | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 hand | case |
| 44 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 took | obl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 gain | mark |
| 46 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 took | advcl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 prize | det |
| 48 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 gain | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tailor | of this; aware, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | tailor | a sprightly man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dare | past | the laird | tailor | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the laird not said here | the trews | the church | night | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trew=Product | ||
| 5 | not is | past · passive | the laird not said here | the tailor | daunt property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | take | past | church | hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in hand=Location | ||||
| 7 | gain | to-infinitive | the prize | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=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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