Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 11
Going looking for an axe, an axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one."
Who acts: Manachar · What happens: go, look, cut, make, hang, eat · To what, where: rod, gad, raspberries
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manachar), 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 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Going | xcomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 axe | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 axe | det |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 axe | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 axe | det |
| 8 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 axe | appos |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cut | mark |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 axe | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rod | det |
| 12 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Going | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rod | det |
| 15 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Going | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 gad | det |
| 19 | gad | gad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gad | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 gad | det |
| 22 | gad | gad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gad | appos |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 hang | mark |
| 24 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 gad | acl |
| 25 | Manachar | Manachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 ate | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ate | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 ate | nsubj |
| 28 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hang | ccomp |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 raspberries | nmod:poss |
| 30 | raspberries | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ate | obj |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ate | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Going | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | a rod | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | for a axe | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for axe=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cut | to-infinitive | a rod | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rod=Product | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | a gad | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product | |||||
| 5 | hang | to-infinitive | a gad not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | eat | past | Manachar | my raspberries | tree rules |
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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