Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 40
Now that happened to be the tree under which Andrew Coffey was sitting.
Who acts: that, Andrew · What happens: happen, be, sit · To what, where: 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 (that, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tree | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tree | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sitting | obl |
| 10 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | nsubj |
| 11 | Coffey | Coffey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Andrew | flat |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sitting | aux |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 tree | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | that | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the tree | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | Andrew | the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location |
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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