Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 26
It was but a little while and the story-teller lost every penny of his money.
What happens: lose · To what, where: stone
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 lost | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 while | amod |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 teller | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 teller | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teller | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 story | punct |
| 11 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 while | conj |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 penny | det |
| 14 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 money | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 money | nmod:poss |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 penny | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | stone | 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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