Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 139
Up came the guards, seized the lank grey beggarman, marched him to the gallows and hanged him high and dry.
What happens: come, seize, march, hange · To what, where: guards, lank grey beggarman, beggarman, gallows
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: 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guards | det |
| 4 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beggarman | det |
| 8 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beggarman | amod |
| 9 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beggarman | amod |
| 10 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 marched | punct |
| 12 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 marched | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 gallows | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gallows | det |
| 16 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 marched | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hanged | cc |
| 18 | hanged | hange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hanged | obj |
| 20 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hanged | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dry | cc |
| 22 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 high | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the guards | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location guard=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | the lank grey beggarman | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggarman=Theme | |||||
| 3 | march | past | beggarman | the gallows | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gallows=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | hange | past | beggarman | high property | tree rules |
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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