Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 3
One day Llewelyn went to the chase and blew his horn in front of his castle.
Who acts: Llewelyn · What happens: go, blow · To what, where: chase, horn
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 (Llewelyn), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Llewelyn | Llewelyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 chase | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chase | det |
| 7 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blew | cc |
| 9 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horn | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blew | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blew | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 castle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 front | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Llewelyn | the chase | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chase=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | blow | past | Llewelyn not said here | Llewelyn's horn | in front of Llewelyn's castle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent horn=Patient in front=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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