Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 56
It is a year since I put the poisoned stab into her finger."
Who acts: house, I · What happens: be, put, poison · To what, where: year, poisoned stab, finger
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 year | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 year | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 year | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stab | det |
| 9 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stab | amod |
| 10 | stab | stab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 finger | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 finger | nmod:poss |
| 13 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | house | a year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | past | I | the poisoned stab | well's finger | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stab=Goal | |||
| 3 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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