Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 18
Then he climbed a tree, ate the sweet apples himself, and threw the sour ones down to the cattle of the Gruagach Gaire.
Who acts: cowboy · What happens: climb, eat, throw · To what, where: tree, sweet apples, sour ones, cattle
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 (cowboy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ate | punct |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 apples | det |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 apples | amod |
| 10 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ate | obj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 apples | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 threw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ones | det |
| 16 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ones | amod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 threw | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 threw | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 cattle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cattle | det |
| 21 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 threw | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Gaire | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Gaire | det |
| 24 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Gaire | compound |
| 25 | Gaire | Gaire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 cattle | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | cowboy | a tree | then | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | past | cowboy not said here | the sweet apples cowboy | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | cowboy not said here | the sour ones | the cattle of the Gruagach Gaire | down property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme to cattle=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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