Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 6
So, when night came, away he went up the glen, about half a mile distance from the castle, till he came to the old church.
Who acts: night, tailor · What happens: come, go up · To what, where: glen, old church
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 (night, tailor), 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 | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 went | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 glen | det |
| 12 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 distance | punct |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 distance | advmod |
| 15 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 18 distance | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 distance | det |
| 17 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 distance | compound |
| 18 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 distance | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 church | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 church | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 church | amod |
| 29 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go up | past | tailor | the glen | half mile distance from the castle obl; away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | come | past | tailor | the old church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location |
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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