Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 45
The story-teller turned away in silence, but his wife stopped him.
Who acts: story teller, wife · What happens: turn away, stop · To what, where: silence, teller
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 (story teller, wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teller | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teller | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
| 4 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 silence | case |
| 8 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stopped | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stopped | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stopped | nsubj |
| 13 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stopped | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | the story teller | silence | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stop | past | teller's wife | teller | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality |
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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