Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 54
And when his wife saw him she said: "Home in the nick of time.
Who acts: wife · What happens: see, say · To what, where: road, Home, nick · 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 (wife), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Home | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Home | punct |
| 11 | Home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 nick | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nick | det |
| 14 | nick | nick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nick | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | road's wife | road | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | Home | the nick of time | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in nick=Manner |
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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