Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 126
He gave one loud groan, and fell down at once with terror and weakness.
Who acts: Cucullin · What happens: give, fall down · To what, where: one loud groan
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 groan | nummod |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 groan | amod |
| 5 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 terror | case |
| 13 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weakness | cc |
| 15 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 terror | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Cucullin | one loud groan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groan=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past | Cucullin not said here | with terror and weakness; down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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