Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 73
He let a roar out of him, and made for the room door, to look for a candle inside.
Who acts: boy · What happens: let, make, look · To what, where: roar
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 (boy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 roar | det |
| 4 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 let | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | compound |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 candle | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 candle | det |
| 20 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 21 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 17 look | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | boy | a roar | out cat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | participle | for the room door | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for door=Asset | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | for a candle; inside property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for candle=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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