Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 28
And with that, out there bounced, from a cupboard that Andrew Coffey had never noticed before, _a man_.
Who acts: Andrew · What happens: bounce, not notice · To what, where: that, cupboard
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 (Andrew), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bounced | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 bounced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 that | punct |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 bounced | advmod |
| 7 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cupboard | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cupboard | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cupboard | det |
| 11 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bounced | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 noticed | mark |
| 13 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 noticed | nsubj |
| 14 | Coffey | Coffey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Andrew | flat |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 noticed | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 noticed | advmod |
| 17 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 cupboard | acl:relcl |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 noticed | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bounced | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bounce | participle · passive | that | a cupboard; there | a man obl | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from cupboard=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not notice | past · perfect | Andrew | a cupboard not said here | before property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cupboard=Stimulus |
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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