Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 4
All his other dogs came to the call but Gellert never answered it.
Who acts: other dogs, Gellert · What happens: come, not answer · To what, where: call
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 (other dogs, Gellert), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 dogs | det:predet |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dogs | amod |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 call | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 call | det |
| 8 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 answered | cc |
| 10 | Gellert | Gellert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 answered | advmod |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Llewelyn's other dogs | the call | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to call=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | past | Gellert | call | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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