Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 41
Down he sat again, and in one throw lost houses, hounds, and chariot.
Who acts: teller · What happens: sit, lose · To what, where: one throw
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 (teller), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 throw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 throw | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 throw | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 throw | nummod |
| 9 | throw | throw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 houses | amod |
| 11 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 throw | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hounds | punct |
| 13 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 houses | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chariot | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chariot | cc |
| 16 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throw | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | teller | one throw and chariot | again | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in throw=Location | ||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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