Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 7

He had little sport that day because Gellert was not there, the swiftest and boldest of his hounds.

Who acts: Llewelyn, Gellert · What happens: have, not be · To what, where: little sport

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sport	amod
4	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 there	mark
8	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 there	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 there	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boldest	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boldest	det
14	swiftest	swift	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 boldest	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 boldest	cc
16	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 there	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 hounds	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hounds	nmod:poss
19	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 boldest	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Llewelyn	little sport			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Patient
2	not is	past	Gellert					there property	tree rules

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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