Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 51
So he told all he knew, and brought out the piece of cloth from the monk's robe, and with that the merchants were set at liberty, and the hostess and the monk were seized and hanged.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: tell, know, bring out, set, seize, hange · To what, where: all, piece, robe, merchants, liberty, hostess · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 told | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 told | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 brought | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cloth | case |
| 14 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 robe | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 monk | det |
| 17 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 robe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 monk | case |
| 19 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 22 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 27 set | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 set | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 merchants | det |
| 25 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 set | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 set | aux:pass |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | conj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 liberty | case |
| 29 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seized | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 seized | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hostess | det |
| 33 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 monk | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 monk | det |
| 36 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hostess | conj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 seized | aux:pass |
| 38 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | parataxis |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 hanged | cc |
| 40 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 seized | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Ivan | all | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Ivan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | bring out | past | Ivan not said here | the piece of cloth | the monk's robe | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | |||
| 4 | set | past · passive | the merchants | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at liberty=Destination | ||||
| 5 | seize | past · passive | the hostess and the monk | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hange | participle | tree rules |
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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