Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 59
Now this was a curious property that Fin's thumb had.
Who acts: this, thumb · What happens: be, have · To what, where: curious property
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 (this, thumb), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 property | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 property | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 property | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 property | det |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 property | amod |
| 6 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | obj |
| 8 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Fin | case |
| 10 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 property | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 property | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | a curious property | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | Fin's thumb | a curious property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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