Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 15
They drew nigh, and saw a miserable looking old man lying on the ground with a wooden leg placed beside him.
Who acts: cares, looking old man · What happens: draw, see, look, lie, place · To what, where: looking old man, ground, wooden leg
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 (cares, looking old man), 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 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 2 drew | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 8 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | compound |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 man | amod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 man | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 leg | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 leg | det |
| 18 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leg | amod |
| 19 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 leg | acl |
| 21 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 placed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | cares = care | nigh property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | cares = care not said here | a looking old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | a looking old man not said here | the ground | with a wooden leg | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | |||
| 5 | place | participle | a wooden leg not said here | beside man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside he=Destination |
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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