Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 10
Llewelyn started back and the greyhound crouched down at his feet as if surprised or afraid at the way his master greeted him.
Who acts: Llewelyn, greyhound, master · What happens: start back, crouch down, greet · To what, where: feet, way, 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 (Llewelyn, greyhound, master), 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 | Llewelyn | Llewelyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 started | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crouched | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 greyhound | det |
| 6 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crouched | nsubj |
| 7 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 started | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 crouched | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crouched | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 surprised | case |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 surprised | mark |
| 14 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crouched | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 afraid | cc |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 surprised | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 afraid | obl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 master | nmod:poss |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 greeted | nsubj |
| 22 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 greeted | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start back | past | Llewelyn | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | crouch down | participle | the greyhound | Llewelyn's feet | as surprised | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | Llewelyn's master | the way not said here | Llewelyn | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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