Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 25
And robbers fell upon them before they had gone far from Ivan as they were going by the fields of the houses in the meadow.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: fall, go · To what, where: Ivan, meadow
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 (robbers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fell | cc |
| 2 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | obl |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 gone | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 fell | advcl |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 gone | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Ivan | case |
| 12 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 going | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 gone | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 fields | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fields | det |
| 19 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 going | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 houses | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 houses | det |
| 22 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fields | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 meadow | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 meadow | det |
| 25 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | robbers | upon man | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | robbers = robber | Ivan | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from ivan=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | robbers = robber | the meadow | by the fields of the houses | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by field=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/25/