Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 12
And the nearer he came the more blood and disorder he found about the rooms.
Who acts: thought · What happens: come, find · To what, where: more blood, disorder
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 (thought), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nearer | det |
| 3 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 blood | det |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 blood | amod |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 disorder | cc |
| 10 | disorder | disorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blood | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disorder | acl:relcl |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 rooms | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rooms | det |
| 15 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 found | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | thought | the more blood and disorder | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | thought | disorder not said here | about the rooms | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disorder=Topic |
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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