Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 103
Fin now gave a skirl that startled the giant, as coming from such a youngster as he was supposed to be.
Who acts: Fin, skirl · What happens: give, startle, come, suppose, be · To what, where: skirl, giant, youngster, yell
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 (Fin, skirl), 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 | Fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 skirl | det |
| 5 | skirl | skirl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 startled | nsubj |
| 7 | startled | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skirl | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 startled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 coming | mark |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 startled | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 youngster | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 youngster | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 youngster | det |
| 16 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 supposed | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 supposed | aux:pass |
| 20 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 coming | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 be | mark |
| 22 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 supposed | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Fin | a skirl | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skirl=Theme | |||
| 2 | startle | past | a skirl | the giant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus giant=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | a skirl not said here | such youngster | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from youngster=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | suppose | past · passive | yell | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | be | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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