Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 78
Like the bite of a mad dog is the stroke of this poisoned iron."
What happens: be, poison, bite · To what, where: stroke, mad dog
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 bite | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bite | det |
| 3 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stroke | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dog | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dog | amod |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bite | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stroke | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stroke | det |
| 10 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 iron | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 iron | det |
| 13 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 iron | amod |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stroke | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stroke | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 stroke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the stroke | like the bite of a mad dog; of this poisoned iron | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bite | a mad dog | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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