Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 43
Right or left--backward or forward--where to go he could form no guess whatsoever.
Who acts: chance · What happens: leave, go, form · To what, where: guess
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 (chance), 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 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 left | cc |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 backward | punct |
| 5 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 forward | cc |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 backward | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 go | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 form | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 form | aux |
| 14 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | ccomp |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 guess | det |
| 16 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 form | obj |
| 17 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 14 form | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | backward, right property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | form | could | chance | no guess | whatsoever property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location guess=Theme |
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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