Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 44
So they were taken and carried to prison, till a last Ivan came to them. "
Who acts: last Ivan · What happens: take, carry, come · To what, where: man, prison
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 (last 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carried | cc |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 prison | case |
| 8 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Ivan | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Ivan | amod |
| 13 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | participle | prison | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to prison=Destination | |||||
| 3 | come | past | a last Ivan | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_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.
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