Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 150
As soon as the cowboy came home, the eldest sister offered him a drink.
Who acts: eldest sister · What happens: come, offer · To what, where: drink, cowboy
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 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 cowboy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cowboy | det |
| 5 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 offered | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 sister | amod |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offered | nsubj |
| 12 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 offered | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 drink | det |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | as the cowboy; home, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | offer | past | the eldest sister | a drink | cowboy | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal drink=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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