Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 69
A stork was boiling in the pot, as when the Gruagach came the first time.
Who acts: stork, Gruagach · What happens: boil, come
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 (stork, Gruagach), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stork | det |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boiling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 boiling | aux |
| 4 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boiling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Gruagach | det |
| 12 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 boiling | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boiling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | past · progressive | a stork | in the pot | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent in pot=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Gruagach | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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