Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 59
But one day the great lord stopped at their house for a drink of water, and Ivan's wife said to him: "I hope your lordship found your lordship's purse quite safe with all its money in it."
Who acts: great lord, wife, lordship · What happens: stop, say, hope, find · To what, where: house, lord, purse · 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 (great lord, wife, lordship), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 stopped | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lord | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lord | amod |
| 6 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 drink | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 drink | det |
| 13 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drink | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 18 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Ivan | case |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stopped | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 hope | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 hope | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 hope | nsubj |
| 27 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lordship | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lordship | lordship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hope | ccomp |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 lordship | nmod:poss |
| 32 | lordship | lordship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 purse | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 lordship | case |
| 34 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 35 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 36 safe | advmod |
| 36 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 found | xcomp |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 money | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 money | det:predet |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 money | nmod:poss |
| 40 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 safe | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 money | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the great lord | people's house | day | for a drink of water | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ivan's wife | lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hope in a quote | present | Ivan's wife = wife | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | past | your lordship | your lordship's purse | safe property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Topic |
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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