Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 16
At last he felt sure the dog had destroyed his child, and shouting to Gellert, "Monster, thou hast devoured my child," he drew out his sword and plunged it in the greyhound's side, who fell with a deep yell and still gazing in his master's eyes.
Who acts: Prince, side · What happens: feel, destroy, shout, devour, draw out, plunge · To what, where: last, dog, Gellert, thou, sword · 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 (Prince, side), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 destroyed | aux |
| 9 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 child | nmod:poss |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 destroyed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shouting | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shouting | cc |
| 14 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 felt | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Gellert | case |
| 16 | Gellert | Gellert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 shouting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Monster | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Monster | punct |
| 19 | Monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Gellert | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 devoured | punct |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 devoured | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 devoured | aux |
| 23 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 felt | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 child | nmod:poss |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 devoured | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drew | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 drew | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 drew | nsubj |
| 29 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | parataxis |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 drew | compound:prt |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sword | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drew | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 plunged | cc |
| 34 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 drew | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 plunged | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 side | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 greyhound | det |
| 38 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 side | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 greyhound | case |
| 40 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 plunged | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fell | punct |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 fell | nsubj |
| 43 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 side | acl:relcl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 yell | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 yell | det |
| 46 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 yell | amod |
| 47 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fell | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 gazing | cc |
| 49 | still | still | ADV | _ | 50 gazing | advmod |
| 50 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 fell | conj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 eyes | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 master | nmod:poss |
| 53 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 54 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 53 master | case |
| 55 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 gazing | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Prince | last | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | destroy | past · perfect · passive | the dog | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | Prince not said here | Gellert | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to gellert=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | devour in a quote | present · perfect · passive | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | draw out | past | Prince | Prince's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 6 | plunge | past | Prince not said here | sword | in the greyhound's side | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient it=Extent in side=Attribute | |||
| 7 | fall | past | the greyhound's side | with a deep yell | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | gaze | gerund | the greyhound's side not said here | still | in Prince's master's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in eye=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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