Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 131
They did so, and if they played, the lank grey beggarman listened.
Who acts: fifths, lank grey beggarman · What happens: do, play, listen
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 (fifths, lank grey 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 listened | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 listened | cc |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 played | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 played | nsubj |
| 8 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 listened | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 played | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beggarman | det |
| 11 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beggarman | amod |
| 12 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beggarman | amod |
| 13 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 listened | nsubj |
| 14 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fifths = fifth | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | play a condition, not said to happen | past | fifths = fifth | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | listen | past | the lank grey beggarman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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