Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 6
Then they agreed upon three pounds for the year's wages.
Who acts: kinds · What happens: agree
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 (kinds), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 pounds | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pounds | nummod |
| 6 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 agreed | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 wages | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wages | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 year | case |
| 11 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 agreed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | kinds = kind | then | upon three pounds; for the year's wages | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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