Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 1
Print Llewelyn had a favourite greyhound named Gellert that had been given to him by his father-in-law, King John.
Who acts: you, Llewelyn, law · What happens: print, have, name, give · To what, where: favourite greyhound, Llewelyn
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Llewelyn, law), 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 | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root | ||
| 2 | Llewelyn | Llewelyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Print | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 greyhound | det |
| 5 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 greyhound | amod |
| 6 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 greyhound | acl |
| 8 | Gellert | Gellert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 given | obj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 greyhound | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 given | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 law | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 law | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 law | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 law | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 law | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 in | punct |
| 21 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 John | punct |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 John | nmod:desc |
| 24 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 law | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Print | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | past | Llewelyn | a favourite greyhound | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | a favourite greyhound not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect · passive | Llewelyn's law | a favourite greyhound | Llewelyn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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