Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 48
"There was a large pot over the fire in the room, and a great stork boiling in the pot.
Who acts: great stork · What happens: be, boil · To what, where: large pot, fire
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 (great stork), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pot | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pot | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pot | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pot | amod |
| 6 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pot | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fire | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stork | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stork | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stork | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stork | amod |
| 17 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pot | conj |
| 18 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 stork | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pot | det |
| 21 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boiling | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | a large pot and a great stork | the fire in the room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | boil in a quote | gerund | a great stork not said here | in the pot | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in pot=Instrument |
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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