Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 16

Going looking for a flag, flag to edge axe, 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 flag	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flag	det
5	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flag	punct
7	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flag	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 axe	mark
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 axe	compound
10	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flag	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 axe	punct
12	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 axe	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cut	mark
14	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 axe	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rod	det
16	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rod	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 rod	det
19	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flag	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looking	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gad	det
23	gad	gad	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gad	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 gad	det
26	gad	gad	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gad	appos
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hang	mark
28	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 gad	acl
29	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ate	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ate	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 ate	nsubj
32	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hang	ccomp
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 raspberries	nmod:poss
34	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ate	obj
35	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ate	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Going	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	gerund				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	gerund			for a flag and flag and edge axe and axe and a rod	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for flag=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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