Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 110
The lad ran up the thread and all three soon disappeared.
Who acts: lad, three · What happens: run up, disappear · To what, where: thread
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 (lad, three), 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 lad | det |
| 2 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thread | det |
| 6 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 disappeared | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 three | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 disappeared | nsubj |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 disappeared | advmod |
| 11 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | the lad | the thread | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thread=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | all three | soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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