Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 57
Again they played, and again the story-teller lost.
Who acts: sorrow · What happens: play, lose · To what, where: story 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 (sorrow), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 played | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 teller | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 teller | cc |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 teller | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 teller | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teller | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 10 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | obl |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 teller | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | sorrow | the story teller | again | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | lose | participle | the story teller not said here | 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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