Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 53
I got but a small piece of the stork, and the man of the house took all the rest on his wooden pike.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: get, take · To what, where: small piece, rest
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 (I, man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 piece | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 piece | amod |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stork | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stork | det |
| 9 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | nmod |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 rest | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 pike | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pike | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pike | amod |
| 24 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | a small piece of the stork | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the man of the house | all rest | on man's wooden pike | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rest=Theme on pike=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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