Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 99
Cucullin at the moment was not only hungry, but ravenous, so he accordingly made a fresh set at the second cake, and immediately another yell was heard twice as loud as the first. "
Who acts: Cucullin · What happens: not be, be, make, hear · To what, where: fresh set, second cake, yell
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 (Cucullin), 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 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cucullin | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hungry | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hungry | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 hungry | advmod |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ravenous | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 ravenous | cc |
| 11 | ravenous | ravenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hungry | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 made | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 16 made | advmod |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hungry | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 set | det |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 set | amod |
| 19 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 cake | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cake | det |
| 22 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 cake | amod |
| 23 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 heard | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 heard | cc |
| 26 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 30 heard | advmod |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 yell | det |
| 28 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heard | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 heard | aux:pass |
| 30 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 made | conj |
| 31 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 loud | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 loud | advmod |
| 33 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 heard | xcomp |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 first | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 first | det |
| 36 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 loud | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hungry | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Cucullin at the moment | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Cucullin at the moment not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | Cucullin | a fresh set | the second cake | accordingly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Product | ||
| 4 | hear | past · passive | another yell | immediately, loud property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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