Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 100
Thunder and gibbets!" he roared, "take your bread out of this, or I will not have a tooth in my head; there's another pair of them gone!"
Who acts: Thunder, I · What happens: roar, take, not have, be · To what, where: bread, this, tooth, head
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thunder, I), 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 | Thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roared | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gibbets | cc |
| 3 | gibbets | gibbet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thunder | conj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thunder | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thunder | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 roared | nsubj |
| 7 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 roared | ccomp |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bread | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 take | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 have | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tooth | det |
| 23 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 's | punct |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 's | expl |
| 29 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 gone | cop |
| 30 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 pair | det |
| 31 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 's | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 pair | nmod |
| 34 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 roared | conj |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 gone | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar in a quote | past | Thunder and gibbets | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | Thunder and gibbets not said here | your bread | this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bread=Theme out this=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | not have | future | I | a tooth | my head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | present | Thunder and gibbets not said here | go property | tree rules |
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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