Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 20
It was bad enough not to be let sit by the fire and dry oneself, without being bothered for a story.
Who acts: thing · What happens: be, not let, sit, bother
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 (thing), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bad | cop |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 bad | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 let | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | aux:pass |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bad | advcl |
| 9 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sit | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 oneself | cc |
| 14 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 oneself | amod |
| 15 | oneself | oneself | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fire | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bothered | punct |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 bothered | mark |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 bothered | aux:pass |
| 19 | bothered | bother | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sit | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 story | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 story | det |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bothered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thing | bad, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not let | to-infinitive · passive | thing not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sit | infinitive | thing not said here | by the fire and dry oneself | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | ||||
| 4 | bother | gerund · passive | thing not said here | for a story | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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