Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 3
So he took fair leave, and travelled far toward the East, and at last came to the house of a farmer and asked for work.
Who acts: work · What happens: take, travel, come, ask · To what, where: fair leave, East, last
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 (work), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leave | amod |
| 5 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 travelled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 travelled | cc |
| 8 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 travelled | advmod |
| 10 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 East | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 East | det |
| 12 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 travelled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 came | obl |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 farmer | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 farmer | det |
| 23 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asked | cc |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 work | case |
| 27 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | work | fair leave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | past | work not said here | the East | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward east=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | past | work not said here | last | to the house of a farmer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | work not said here | for work | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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