Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 100
The lank grey beggarman put his hand to his ear, and he gave it a pull.
Who acts: lank grey beggarman, beggarman · What happens: put, give · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lank grey beggarman, beggarman), 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 | 4 beggarman | det |
| 2 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beggarman | amod |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beggarman | amod |
| 4 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ear | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ear | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pull | det |
| 17 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the lank grey beggarman | beggarman's hand | to beggarman's ear | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||
| 2 | give | past | beggarman | hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient pull=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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