Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 3
Fancy his surprise one evening, when he found himself in a part of the demesne he couldn't recognise a bit.
Who acts: you, grandfather · What happens: fancy, find, not recognise, surprise · To what, where: surprise, grandfather, part, bit
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 (you, 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 | Fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 3 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fancy | obj |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 evening | nummod |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fancy | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 found | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fancy | parataxis |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 part | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 part | det |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 demesne | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 demesne | det |
| 16 | demesne | demesne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 part | nmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 recognise | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 recognise | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 recognise | advmod |
| 20 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 demesne | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bit | det |
| 22 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recognise | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | imperative | you not said here | grandfather's surprise | evening | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surprise=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | past | grandfather | grandfather | a part of the demesne | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | not recognise | could | grandfather | a bit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | surprise | grandfather | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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