Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 18
But just beside him lay the body of a great gaunt wolf all torn to pieces and covered with blood.
Who acts: cry · What happens: lie, tear, cover · To what, where: body, pieces
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 (cry), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 lay | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 3 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 lay | mark |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 body | det |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wolf | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wolf | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wolf | amod |
| 11 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wolf | amod |
| 12 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 body | nmod |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 wolf | conj |
| 14 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 all | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 pieces | case |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 torn | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 covered | cc |
| 18 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 torn | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 blood | case |
| 20 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 covered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | cry | the body of a great gaunt wolf | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tear | participle | pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Destination | |||||
| 3 | cover | participle | with blood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP 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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