Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 52
With him by my side I could venture into regions where the non-Celt wanders at his own risk.
Who acts: I, non-Celt, Mr. · What happens: venture, wander, risk · To what, where: regions, own risk
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, non-Celt, Mr.), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 venture | obl |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 side | nmod:poss |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 venture | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 venture | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 venture | aux |
| 8 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 regions | case |
| 10 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 venture | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 wanders | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 non-Celt | det |
| 13 | non-Celt | non-celt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wanders | nsubj |
| 14 | wanders | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 venture | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 risk | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 risk | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 risk | amod |
| 18 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wanders | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 venture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | could | I | regions | with Mr.; by my side | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | wander | present | the non-Celt | Mr.'s own risk | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at risk=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | risk | Mr. | nom risk «state transitive»: poss=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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