Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 17
As for water, I am sinking a pump, and, plase goodness, as soon as the Causeway's made, I intend to finish it."
Who acts: I · What happens: sink, make, intend, finish · To what, where: pump
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 (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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 water | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sinking | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 water | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sinking | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sinking | aux |
| 7 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pump | det |
| 9 | pump | pump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sinking | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 goodness | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 goodness | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | plase | plase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goodness | compound |
| 14 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sinking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 soon | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 sinking | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Causeway | det |
| 20 | Causeway | Causeway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Causeway | case |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 soon | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 intend | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 intend | nsubj |
| 25 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sinking | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 finish | mark |
| 27 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 intend | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 finish | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sinking | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present · progressive | I | a pump | as water; plase goodness obl; soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pump=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | participle | I not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | intend | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | finish not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | pump | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |
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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