Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 60
With that they gave another halloo, and smashed every pane in the window.
Who acts: mother · What happens: give, smash · To what, where: halloo, pane, window
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 (mother), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 gave | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 halloo | det |
| 6 | halloo | halloo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smashed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 smashed | cc |
| 9 | smashed | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 pane | det |
| 11 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smashed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smashed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | mother | another halloo | with that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halloo=Theme | |||
| 2 | smash | past | mother not said here | every pane | the window | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pane=Theme in window=Destination |
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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