Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 58
So they went up to the castle, but the great lord was not in it, so they left the purse with the servant that minded the gate, and then they went home again and lived in quiet for a time.
Who acts: people, great lord, servant · What happens: go up, not be, leave, mind, go, live · To what, where: castle, purse, gate, quiet
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 (people, great lord, servant), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 it | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 it | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lord | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lord | amod |
| 12 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 it | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 it | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 it | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 left | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | nsubj |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 purse | det |
| 22 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 servant | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 servant | det |
| 25 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 minded | nsubj |
| 27 | minded | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 servant | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gate | det |
| 29 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 minded | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 went | advmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 went | nsubj |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 35 | home | home | ADV | _ | 34 went | advmod |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 went | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 lived | cc |
| 38 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 went | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 quiet | case |
| 40 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 lived | obl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 time | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 time | det |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lived | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | people | to the castle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the great lord | castle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | people | the purse | with the servant | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent purse=Recipient with servant=Theme | |||
| 4 | mind | past | the servant | the gate | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | people | then; again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | live | past | people not said here | quiet | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in quiet=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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