Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 5
So he blew a louder blast on his horn and called Gellert by name, but still the greyhound did not come.
Who acts: Gellert, greyhound · What happens: blow, call, not come · To what, where: louder blast, horn, Gellert · 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 (Gellert, greyhound), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 blew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 blast | det |
| 5 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 blast | amod |
| 6 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 horn | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horn | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 12 | Gellert | Gellert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 name | case |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 greyhound | det |
| 19 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 blew | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Gellert | a louder blast | Gellert's horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | past | Gellert not said here | Gellert | by name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gellert=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not come | past · do-support | the greyhound | still | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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