Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 92
They made a hearty breakfast on what was left the night before, and then they all agreed to set off to the castle of the Lord of Dunlavin, and give him back all his gold and silver.
Who acts: comrades · What happens: make, leave, agree, set off, give back · To what, where: hearty breakfast, castle, gold, Dunlavin
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 (comrades), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 breakfast | det |
| 4 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 breakfast | amod |
| 5 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 left | mark |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 left | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 made | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 left | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 agreed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 agreed | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 agreed | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 agreed | nsubj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 they | det |
| 18 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 set | mark |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 agreed | xcomp |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 castle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Lord | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Lord | det |
| 27 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 castle | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Dunlavin | case |
| 29 | Dunlavin | Dunlavin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Lord | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 give | cc |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | parataxis |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 give | advmod |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 gold | det:predet |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 gold | nmod:poss |
| 37 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 silver | cc |
| 39 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gold | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | comrades = comrade | a hearty breakfast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breakfast=Product | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | night | before property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | comrades = comrade | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | set off not said to happen | to-infinitive | comrades = comrade not said here | the castle of the Lord of Dunlavin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | give back | infinitive | Dunlavin's gold and silver | Dunlavin | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gold=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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