Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 8
He took a glen at a step, a hill at a leap, and travelled all day till evening.
Who acts: king · What happens: take, travel · To what, where: glen
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 (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 glen | det |
| 4 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 step | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 step | det |
| 7 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hill | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hill | det |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 step | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 leap | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 leap | det |
| 13 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hill | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 travelled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 travelled | cc |
| 16 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 travelled | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 evening | case |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 travelled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | king | a glen | at a step a hill at a leap | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent glen=Theme at step=Asset | |||
| 2 | travel | past | king not said here | day; evening | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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