Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 62
She immediately brought the cradle, and made Fin to lie down in it, and cover himself up with the clothes.
Who acts: idea, Fin · What happens: bring, make, lie down, cover up · To what, where: cradle, Fin, Cucullin
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 (idea, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cradle | det |
| 5 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 9 | Fin | Fin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 lie | mark |
| 11 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | xcomp |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 lie | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lie | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cover | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cover | cc |
| 17 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lie | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 cover | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 cover | compound:prt |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 clothes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 clothes | det |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 cover | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | idea | the cradle | immediately property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cradle=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | idea not said here | Fin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie down | to-infinitive | Fin not said here | cradle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location | ||||
| 4 | cover up | infinitive | Fin not said here | Cucullin | with the clothes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with clothes=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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