Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 13
The Shee an Gannon took service, and ate his supper.
Who acts: Shee · What happens: take, eat · To what, where: service, supper
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shee), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Shee | det |
| 2 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Gannon | det |
| 4 | Gannon | Gannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shee | appos |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ate | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ate | cc |
| 9 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 supper | nmod:poss |
| 11 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ate | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Shee | service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | the Shee not said here | man's supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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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