Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 142
When the cowboy got home, the eldest sister gave him a draught of oblivion, and he did not tell.
Who acts: cowboy, eldest sister · What happens: get, give, not tell · To what, where: draught, cowboy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cowboy, eldest sister), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cowboy | det |
| 3 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sister | det |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 draught | det |
| 13 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 oblivion | case |
| 15 | oblivion | oblivion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 draught | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tell | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tell | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 tell | advmod |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the cowboy | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the eldest sister | a draught of oblivion | cowboy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient draught=Theme | |||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | cowboy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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