Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 99
"'Tis easy to see them, they're big enough, but thou canst never move one ear and not the two together."
Who acts: ears, thou · What happens: see, be, not move · To what, where: ears, one ear
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 (ears, thou), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 easy | compound |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 big | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 big | nsubj |
| 10 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 big | cop |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 easy | conj |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 big | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 move | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 move | cc |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 move | nsubj |
| 16 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 18 move | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 move | advmod |
| 18 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | parataxis |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 ear | nummod |
| 20 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 move | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 two | cc |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 two | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 two | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 ear | conj |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 move | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | ears = ear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | ears = ear | big, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not move in a quote | can | thou | one ear | together property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
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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