Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 37
Now it happened that the hostess had plotted with a certain monk in Market-Jew to murder the old man in his bed that night while the rest were asleep, and they agreed to lay it on the lodgers.
Who acts: it, rest, man · What happens: happen, plot, murder, be, agree, lay · To what, where: hostess, old man, bed, rest, lodgers
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 (it, rest, man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 plotted | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hostess | det |
| 6 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plotted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 plotted | aux |
| 8 | plotted | plot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 monk | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 monk | det |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 monk | amod |
| 12 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plotted | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Market | case |
| 14 | Market | Market | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 monk | nmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Jew | punct |
| 16 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Market | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 murder | mark |
| 18 | murder | murder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 plotted | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 murder | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 murder | obl |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 night | det |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 murder | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 asleep | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rest | det |
| 29 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 asleep | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 asleep | cop |
| 31 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 murder | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 agreed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 agreed | cc |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 agreed | nsubj |
| 35 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 lay | mark |
| 37 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 agreed | xcomp |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 lay | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 lodgers | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 lodgers | det |
| 41 | lodgers | lodger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 lay | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plot | past · perfect · passive | the hostess | with a certain monk in Market and Jew | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | murder | to-infinitive | the old man | Jew's bed | night | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | the rest | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | agree speech: agree | past | man | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | lay not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | rest | the lodgers | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on lodger=Destination |
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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