Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 46
"Oh, we saw the grand strange lady again!
Who acts: we · What happens: see · To what, where: grand strange lady
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 saw | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lady | amod |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lady | amod |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | we | the grand strange lady | again | 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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