Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 95
The wedding lasted nine days, and the last day was better than the first.
Who acts: wedding, last day · What happens: last, be
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 (wedding, last day), 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 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lasted | nsubj |
| 3 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 better | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 better | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 better | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 better | cop |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 lasted | parataxis |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 first | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 first | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 better | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | the wedding | day | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the last day | than the first; good property | tree rules |
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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