Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 14
The same thing happened at the end of the third year, when the piece of advice was: "Honesty is the best policy."
Who acts: same thing, Honesty · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: end, best policy · 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 (same thing, Honesty), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 was | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 advice | case |
| 17 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 end | acl:relcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 policy | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 policy | punct |
| 21 | Honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 policy | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 policy | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 policy | det |
| 24 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 policy | amod |
| 25 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 policy | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 policy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the same thing | at the end of the third year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Honesty | the best policy | 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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