Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 52
"Yellow Face gave me the iron pike, and the first chance of taking what I could out of the pot on the point of the pike.
Who acts: Yellow Face, first chance · What happens: give, take, point · To what, where: iron pike, man, pot, pike
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 (Yellow Face, first chance), 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 | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 2 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Face | amod |
| 3 | Face | Face | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pike | det |
| 7 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pike | amod |
| 8 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taking | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chance | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 chance | amod |
| 13 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 taking | mark |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 taking | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 pot | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pot | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 point | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 point | det |
| 25 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 pike | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pike | det |
| 28 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 point | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | Yellow Face | the iron pike | the man of the house = man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pike=Theme | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | gerund | the first chance | the pot | on the point of the pike | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme on point=Destination | |||
| 3 | point in a quote | the pike | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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