Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 38
So while Ivan was in bed next door, there was a hole in the pine-end of the house, and he saw a light through it.
Who acts: Ivan, hole · What happens: be, see · To what, where: bed, light
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 (Ivan, hole), 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 | _ | 11 was | advmod |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 bed | mark |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bed | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | advcl |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 door | amod |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bed | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bed | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hole | det |
| 13 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 16 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 pine | punct |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hole | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saw | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 was | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 light | det |
| 27 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saw | obj |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ivan | bed and next door | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a hole in the pine end of the house | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Ivan | a light | bed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
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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