Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 89
But the lank grey beggarman put a finger on either outside straw and, whiff, away he blew the middle one.
Who acts: lank grey beggarman, beggarman · What happens: put, blow · To what, where: finger, outside straw, middle one
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 (lank grey beggarman, beggarman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beggarman | det |
| 3 | lank | lank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beggarman | amod |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beggarman | amod |
| 5 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 finger | det |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 straw | case |
| 10 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 straw | det |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 straw | amod |
| 12 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 whiff | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 whiff | punct |
| 15 | whiff | whiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 straw | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blew | punct |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 blew | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 blew | nsubj |
| 19 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blew | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | the lank grey beggarman | a finger | either outside straw and whiff | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on straw=Destination | |||
| 2 | blow | past | beggarman | the middle one | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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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