Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 125
Cucullin was surprised to find such a powerful set of grinders in one so young; but he was still much more so on finding, when he took his hand from Fin's mouth, that he had left the very finger upon which his whole strength depended, behind him.
Who acts: Cucullin, whole strength · What happens: be, find, take, leave, depend · To what, where: powerful set, hand, mouth, finger
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 (Cucullin, whole strength), 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 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | cop |
| 3 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 surprised | advcl |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 set | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 set | det |
| 8 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 set | amod |
| 9 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 grinders | case |
| 11 | grinders | grinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 young | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 young | nsubj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 young | advmod |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grinders | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 finding | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 finding | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 finding | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 finding | aux |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 so | advmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 finding | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 25 finding | mark |
| 25 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 surprised | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 took | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 took | nsubj |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 finding | parataxis |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 mouth | case |
| 33 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 Fin | case |
| 35 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 left | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 left | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 left | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 left | aux |
| 40 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 took | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 finger | det |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 finger | advmod |
| 43 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 left | obj |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 which | case |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 depended | obl |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 strength | nmod:poss |
| 47 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 strength | amod |
| 48 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 depended | nsubj |
| 49 | depended | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 finger | acl:relcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 him | punct |
| 51 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 52 him | case |
| 52 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 left | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Cucullin | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Cucullin not said here | such powerful set of grinders in young | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find | past · progressive | Cucullin | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | Cucullin | Cucullin's hand | Fin's mouth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | leave | past · perfect | Cucullin | the finger | behind strength | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme behind he=Location | |||
| 6 | depend | past | Cucullin's whole strength | upon the finger | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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