Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 13
After that they agreed for another year at the old wages, and at the end of it Ivan took instead a piece of advice, and this was it: "Never lodge where an old man is married to a young woman."
Who acts: man, Ivan, this, advice · What happens: agree, take, be, not lodge, marry · To what, where: old wages, end, advice, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Ivan, this, advice), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 agreed | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 wages | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wages | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wages | amod |
| 11 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 agreed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 end | nmod |
| 19 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 21 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 23 piece | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 piece | det |
| 23 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 advice | case |
| 25 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 piece | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lodge | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lodge | cc |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 it | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 it | cop |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lodge | nsubj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 it | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 lodge | punct |
| 33 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 lodge | advmod |
| 34 | lodge | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 took | parataxis |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 married | advmod |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 man | amod |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 married | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 married | aux:pass |
| 40 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 lodge | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 woman | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 woman | det |
| 43 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 woman | amod |
| 44 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 married | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 lodge | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 lodge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | man | the old wages | after that; year | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | take | past | Ivan | at the end of sake | instead a piece of advice | vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||
| 3 | is a | past | this | advice | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not lodge in a quote | infinitive | advice | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | marry in a quote | present · passive | a old man | to a young woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to woman=Co-Patient |
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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