Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 25
We saw a wonderful grand lady at the church-door.
Who acts: We · What happens: see · To what, where: wonderful grand lady, church door
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 church | punct |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | We | a wonderful grand lady | the church door | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=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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