Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 3
There are twelve iron spikes out here in the garden behind my castle.
Who acts: twelve iron · What happens: be, spike out · To what, where: garden
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 (twelve iron), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spikes | advcl |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 iron | nummod |
| 4 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spikes | nsubj |
| 5 | spikes | spike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 spikes | compound:prt |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 spikes | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spikes | obl |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 castle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spikes | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spikes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | twelve iron not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spike out | present | twelve iron | the garden; here | behind my castle | tree rules |
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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