Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 35
He ran and he ran taking little thought of what was before till at last he ran up against a big tree.
Who acts: Andrew · What happens: run, take, be, run up · To what, where: little thought, last, big tree
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 6 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ran | xcomp |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thought | amod |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taking | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 thought | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 before | cop |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taking | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 last | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 ran | compound:prt |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tree | amod |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Andrew | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | Andrew | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | Andrew not said here | little thought | till last | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | before property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | run up | past | Andrew | last not said here | a big tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent last=Theme against tree=Trajectory |
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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