Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 63
So Ivan and his wife went up to the castle, and there they pointed out the man to whom they had given the purse, and he had to give it up and was sent away from the castle.
Who acts: Ivan, people · What happens: go up, point out, give, have, give up, send away · To what, where: man, purse, castle
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, people), 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 | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wife | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | conj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pointed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pointed | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 pointed | expl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pointed | nsubj |
| 15 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 pointed | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pointed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 pointed | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 given | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 whom | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 purse | det |
| 25 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 had | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 give | mark |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 had | xcomp |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 give | obj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 give | compound:prt |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sent | cc |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 sent | aux:pass |
| 36 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 had | conj |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 sent | advmod |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 castle | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 castle | det |
| 40 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sent | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Ivan and Ivan's wife | to the castle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | point out | past | people | the man | there | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Theme to whom=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | people | the purse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Ivan | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give up | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | purse | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | ||||
| 6 | send away | past · passive | Ivan not said here | the castle | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: from castle=Source |
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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