Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 140
Back they marched to the hall, and who should they see but the lank grey beggarman seated on a bench with his mouth to a flagon of ale.
Who acts: guards · What happens: march, see, seat · To what, where: lank grey beggarman, bench
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 (guards), 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 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 3 marched | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 marched | nsubj |
| 3 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marched | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 see | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 marched | conj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 beggarman | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beggarman | det |
| 15 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beggarman | amod |
| 16 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beggarman | amod |
| 17 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | conj |
| 18 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 beggarman | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 bench | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bench | det |
| 21 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seated | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 mouth | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bench | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 flagon | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 flagon | det |
| 27 | flagon | flagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seated | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ale | case |
| 29 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flagon | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | guards = guard | to the hall result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hall=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | should | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | seat | participle | the lank grey beggarman not said here | a bench with beggarman's mouth | to a flagon of ale | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
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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