Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 8
For some time he got on pretty well, until he felt the floor all of a tremble under his feet; and looking about him, but keeping his fingers at work, he saw the appearance of a great human head rising up through the stone pavement of the church.
Who acts: tailor, great human head · What happens: get on, feel, look, keep, see, rise up · To what, where: time, floor, fingers, work, appearance, stone pavement
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, great human head), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 got | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 felt | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 felt | obj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 felt | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tremble | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tremble | det |
| 18 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 all | nmod |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 all | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 saw | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 saw | cc |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 saw | advcl |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looking | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 keeping | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 keeping | cc |
| 29 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 looking | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 31 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 keeping | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 work | case |
| 33 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keeping | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looking | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 saw | nsubj |
| 36 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 appearance | det |
| 38 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 saw | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 head | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 head | det |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 head | amod |
| 42 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 head | amod |
| 43 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 appearance | nmod |
| 44 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 head | acl |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 rising | compound:prt |
| 46 | through | through | ADP | _ | 49 pavement | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 pavement | det |
| 48 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 pavement | compound |
| 49 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rising | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 church | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 church | det |
| 52 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 pavement | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get on | past | tailor | some time not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | feel | past | tailor | the floor | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent floor=Theme all=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | tailor not said here | about tailor | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | tailor not said here | tailor's fingers | work | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme at work=Location | |||
| 5 | see | past | tailor | the appearance of a great human head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | rise up | gerund | a great human head not said here | the stone pavement of the church | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through pavement=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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