Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 24
But when they took the new road Ivan kept to the old one.
Who acts: man, Ivan · What happens: take, keep · To what, where: new road, old one
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 kept | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | the new road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Ivan | the old one | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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