Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 57
They went forth to battle, but they always fell," yet the captive Celt has enslaved his captor in the realm of imagination.
Who acts: Greeks · What happens: go, battle, fall, enslave · To what, where: captive Celt, realm
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 (Greeks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 battle | mark |
| 5 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 fell | advmod |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 enslaved | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 enslaved | punct |
| 13 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 enslaved | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Celt | det |
| 15 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Celt | amod |
| 16 | Celt | celt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enslaved | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 enslaved | aux |
| 18 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fell | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 captor | nmod:poss |
| 20 | captor | captor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enslaved | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 realm | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 realm | det |
| 23 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enslaved | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 imagination | case |
| 25 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 realm | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Greeks = greek | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | battle | to-infinitive | Greeks = greek not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Greeks = greek | always property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enslave in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the captive Celt | the realm of imagination | 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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