Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 24
My poor grandfather was so dumbfounded that he could only stand and stare.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: dumbfound, stand, stare · To what, where: poor 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: who acts (grandfather), 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 | 3 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grandfather | amod |
| 3 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dumbfounded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dumbfounded | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 dumbfounded | advmod |
| 6 | dumbfounded | dumbfound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 stand | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stand | aux |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 stand | advmod |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dumbfounded | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stare | cc |
| 13 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stand | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dumbfounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dumbfound | past · passive | My poor grandfather | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | could | grandfather | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stare | infinitive | grandfather not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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