Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 119
And though they lived to the uttermost end of time, the hound would never touch a hare again, and the lad took good care to keep his eyes open.
Who acts: lads, hound, lad · What happens: live, not touch, take, keep · To what, where: hare, good care, eyes
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 (lads, hound, lad), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lived | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 lived | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 7 | uttermost | uttermost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 end | amod |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 touch | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hound | det |
| 13 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touch | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 touch | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 touch | advmod |
| 16 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lived | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hare | det |
| 18 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touch | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 touch | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lad | det |
| 23 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | nsubj |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 touch | parataxis |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 care | amod |
| 26 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 keep | mark |
| 28 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 took | advcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 keep | obj |
| 31 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 keep | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | lads = lad | to the uttermost end of time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not touch | would | the hound | a hare | again | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hare=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | the lad | good care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | the lad not said here | O'Donnell's eyes | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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