Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 114
As for the hound, if he used it no worse, he used it no better.
Who acts: friend · What happens: use · To what, where: head
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 (friend), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 hound | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hound | det |
| 4 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 used | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 used | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 used | nsubj |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hound | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 used | obj |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 worse | advmod |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 used | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hound | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 used | nsubj |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 better | expl |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 better | advmod |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 used | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use a condition, not said to happen | past | friend | head | bad property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | use | past | friend | as the hound | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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