Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 105
Oonagh went over, and putting into his hand a cake that had no griddle in it, Fin, whose appetite in the meantime had been sharpened by seeing eating going forward, soon swallowed it.
Who acts: Oonagh, cake · What happens: go over, put, have, sharpen, see, eat · To what, where: Fin, cake, hand, griddle, appetite, meantime
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 (Oonagh, cake), 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 | Oonagh | Oonagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 putting | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 putting | cc |
| 6 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 putting | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cake | det |
| 11 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 putting | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cake | acl:relcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 griddle | det |
| 15 | griddle | griddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fin | punct |
| 19 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appetite | punct |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 appetite | nmod:poss |
| 22 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Fin | appos |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 meantime | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 meantime | det |
| 25 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sharpened | obl |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sharpened | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 sharpened | aux:pass |
| 28 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 appetite | acl:relcl |
| 29 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 seeing | mark |
| 30 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 sharpened | advcl |
| 31 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 seeing | xcomp |
| 32 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 eating | xcomp |
| 33 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 32 going | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 swallowed | punct |
| 35 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 swallowed | advmod |
| 36 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 swallowed | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go over | past | Oonagh | Fin | over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | gerund | Oonagh not said here | a cake | yell's hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cake=Goal | |||
| 3 | have | past | a cake | no griddle | hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent griddle=Patient | |||
| 4 | sharpen | past · perfect · passive | Fin's appetite not said here | the meantime | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 5 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | eat | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | go | gerund | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | swallow | past | Oonagh not said here | meantime | soon property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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