Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 90
"I don't think anything could bring them in it; but I looked first into the likely places, that is, the cow-houses, and the pastures, and the fields next 'em, and now I'm looking in the unlikeliest place I can think of.
Who acts: I, anything, that · What happens: not think, bring, look, be, think · To what, where: fields, heifers, thing, cow houses, unlikeliest place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, anything, that), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | ccomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | advcl |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 looked | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 places | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 places | det |
| 19 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 places | amod |
| 20 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 houses | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 houses | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 houses | cop |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 houses | det |
| 26 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 houses | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 cow | punct |
| 28 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 places | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pastures | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 pastures | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 pastures | det |
| 32 | pastures | pasture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 houses | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fields | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fields | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fields | det |
| 36 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 think | obl |
| 37 | next | next | ADV | _ | 36 fields | advmod |
| 38 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 next | nsubj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 looking | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 looking | cc |
| 41 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 looking | advmod |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 looking | nsubj |
| 43 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 looking | aux |
| 44 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 think | parataxis |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 place | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 place | det |
| 47 | unlikeliest | unlikely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 48 place | amod |
| 48 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 looking | obl |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 think | nsubj |
| 50 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 think | aux |
| 51 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 place | acl:relcl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 think | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | I | the fields | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | could | anything | heifers = heifer | thing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | look in a quote | past | I | into the likely places; first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | that | the cow houses and the pastures | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look in a quote | present · progressive | I | now | in the unlikeliest place | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in place=Theme | |||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | can | I | the unlikeliest place not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=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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