Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 40
Cucullin was an ugly customer to meet with; and, the idea of the "cake" aforesaid flattened the very heart within him.
Who acts: Cucullin, idea · What happens: be, meet, flatten · To what, where: ugly customer, heart
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, idea), 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 | 5 customer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 customer | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 customer | det |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 customer | amod |
| 5 | customer | customer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 customer | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 meet | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 flattened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flattened | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 idea | det |
| 13 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flattened | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 aforesaid | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 aforesaid | det |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 cake | punct |
| 17 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 aforesaid | compound |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 cake | punct |
| 19 | aforesaid | aforesaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 idea | nmod |
| 20 | flattened | flatten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 customer | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 heart | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 heart | advmod |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flattened | obj |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flattened | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 customer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Cucullin | a ugly customer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | flatten | past | the idea of the cake aforesaid | the heart | within Cucullin | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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