Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 133
In the morning when he rose up, the sword was as cold as when he put it there.
Who acts: eldest, sword · What happens: rise up, be, put · To what, where: sword
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, sword), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cold | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 rose | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 morning | acl:relcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 rose | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sword | det |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cold | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cold | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 cold | advmod |
| 13 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 put | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cold | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 put | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | eldest = eld | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the sword | morning | cold property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put | past | eldest = eld | sword | there | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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