Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 15
He could find him nowhere but only signs of some terrible conflict in which much blood had been shed.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: find, shed, sign · To what, where: thought, much blood, terrible conflict
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 (Prince), 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 | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 find | advmod |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 signs | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 signs | advmod |
| 8 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 conflict | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 conflict | det |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 conflict | amod |
| 12 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signs | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 shed | obl |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blood | amod |
| 16 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shed | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 shed | aux:pass |
| 19 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 conflict | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | could | Prince | thought | nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 2 | shed | past · perfect · passive | much blood | some terrible conflict | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 3 | sign | some terrible conflict | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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