Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 1
My grandfather, Andrew Coffey, was known to the whole barony as a quiet, decent man.
What happens: know · To what, where: grandfather
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Andrew | punct |
| 4 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grandfather | appos |
| 5 | Coffey | Coffey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Andrew | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 grandfather | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 known | aux:pass |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 barony | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 barony | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 barony | amod |
| 12 | barony | barony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 15 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 quiet | punct |
| 17 | decent | decent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | My grandfather | to the whole barony; as a quiet decent man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as man=Attribute |
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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