Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 47
How am I to fight this man-mountain--this huge cross between an earthquake and a thunderbolt?--with a pancake in his pocket that was once--"
Who acts: I, that · What happens: fight, be · To what, where: man
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, that), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 fight | advmod |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fight | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fight | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fight | mark |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fight | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 mountain | punct |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | conj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 cross | punct |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 cross | det |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cross | amod |
| 13 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | conj |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 earthquake | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 earthquake | det |
| 16 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cross | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thunderbolt | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thunderbolt | det |
| 19 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 earthquake | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 pancake | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 pancake | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pancake | det |
| 24 | pancake | pancake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fight | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 pocket | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 27 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pancake | nmod | ||
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 once | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 once | cop |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 pancake | advmod |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 once | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 once | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | I | this man and mountain and this huge cross between a earthquake and a thunderbolt | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | once property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/47/