Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 70
The master of the house went into the next room and brought out an iron and a wooden pike, and asked the cowboy which would he choose.
Who acts: master, cowboy · What happens: go, bring out, ask, choose · To what, where: next room, iron, cowboy
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 (master, cowboy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 master | nmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 room | amod |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brought | cc |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 brought | compound:prt |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 iron | det |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pike | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pike | det |
| 18 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pike | amod |
| 19 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 iron | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 asked | cc |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cowboy | det |
| 24 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | obj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 choose | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 choose | aux |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 choose | nsubj |
| 28 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 cowboy | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the master of the house | the next room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bring out | past | the master of the house not said here | a iron and a wooden pike | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent iron=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the master of the house not said here | the cowboy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cowboy=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | choose | would | the cowboy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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