Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 7
When the end of the year came his master showed him the three pounds. "
Who acts: end, master · What happens: come, show · To what, where: three pounds, end
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 (end, master), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 showed | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | nsubj |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 showed | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pounds | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 pounds | nummod |
| 14 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 showed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 showed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the end of the year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | show | past | end's master | the three pounds | end | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pound=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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