Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 39
Well, the march began again, and just as the sun was gone down they looked around, and there was neither cabin nor farm house in sight.
Who acts: march, legs, cabin · What happens: begin, go down, look around, be · To what, where: sun
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (march, legs, cabin), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 began | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 march | det |
| 4 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gone | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gone | cc |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 gone | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 gone | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux:pass |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 began | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 gone | compound:prt |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | parataxis |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 was | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | parataxis |
| 23 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 cabin | det |
| 24 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 house | cc |
| 26 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | compound |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cabin | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 sight | case |
| 29 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the march | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go down | past · passive | the sun | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent | |||||
| 3 | look around | past | legs = leg | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | be | past | neither cabin nor farm house in sight | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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