Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 88
But no use; they only spoiled their feet, and were curing them for months afterwards.
Who acts: use · What happens: spoil, cure · To what, where: feet
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 (use), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 spoiled | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 use | det |
| 3 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoiled | nsubj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spoiled | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 spoiled | advmod |
| 7 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spoiled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 curing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 curing | cc |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 curing | aux |
| 13 | curing | cure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 spoiled | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 curing | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 months | case |
| 16 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 curing | obl |
| 17 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 13 curing | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | past | no use | feet's feet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cure | past · progressive | no use not said here | feet = foot | month | afterwards property | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Source |
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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