Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 10
Well, he did sit, and got a little warm and cheered after his drenching.
Who acts: soul · What happens: sit, get, cheer, drench
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: who acts (soul), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 sit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sit | aux |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 got | cc |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sit | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warm | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 got | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cheered | cc |
| 13 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 drenching | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 drenching | nsubj |
| 16 | drenching | drench | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 cheered | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · do-support | soul | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | warm property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cheer | past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | drench | gerund | soul | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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