Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 64
About two o'clock, as he had been expected, Cucullin came in. "
Who acts: two o'clock · What happens: expect, come in · To what, where: o'clock
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 (two o'clock), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o'clock | nummod |
| 3 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 expected | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 expected | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 expected | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 expected | aux:pass |
| 9 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 o'clock | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 o'clock | punct |
| 11 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past · perfect · passive | two o'clock not said here | o'clock | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in | past | two o'clock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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