Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 13
He rushed into it and found the child's cradle overturned and daubed with blood.
Who acts: thought, cradle · What happens: rush, find, overturn, daub · To what, where: disorder · Speech: someone speaks here
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, cradle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cradle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 child | case |
| 10 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overturned | nsubj |
| 11 | overturned | overturn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 daubed | cc |
| 13 | daubed | daub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 overturned | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 blood | case |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daubed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | thought | disorder | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | past | thought not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | overturn | past | the child's cradle | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | daub | participle | the child's cradle not said here | with blood | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=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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