Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 145
Back they scurried to the gallows, and there hung the king's favourite brother.
Who acts: blows · What happens: scurry, hang · To what, where: gallows, favourite brother
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 (blows), 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 scurried | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scurried | nsubj |
| 3 | scurried | scurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 gallows | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gallows | det |
| 6 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scurried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hung | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hung | cc |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 hung | advmod |
| 10 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scurried | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brother | amod |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hung | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scurry | past | blows = blow | the gallows | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to gallows=Destination | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | blows = blow not said here | the king's favourite brother | there | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
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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