Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 29
And the man was in a towering rage.
Who acts: man · What happens: tower, be · To what, where: towering rage
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 (man), 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 | _ | 8 rage | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rage | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rage | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rage | det |
| 7 | towering | tower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 rage | amod |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tower | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the man | a towering rage | tree rules |
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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