Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 39
In the meantime, Fin was very melancholy, and did not know what to do, or how to act at all.
Who acts: Fin · What happens: be, not know, do, act · To what, where: melancholy, meantime, all · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 melancholy | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meantime | punct |
| 5 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 melancholy | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 melancholy | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 melancholy | advmod |
| 8 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 melancholy | parataxis |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 know | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 act | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 act | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 act | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 act | mark |
| 21 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 act | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 melancholy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fin | melancholy | the meantime | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | act | to-infinitive | all | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: 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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