Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 41
At least he thought so, for seeing a branch handy he swung himself up by it and was soon snugly hidden away.
Who acts: Andrew · What happens: think, see, swing up, hide away · To what, where: least, branch, Andrew
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 least | case |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 thought | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 seeing | mark |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 branch | det |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 11 | handy | handy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seeing | xcomp |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swung | nsubj |
| 13 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 swung | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 swung | compound:prt |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swung | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hidden | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hidden | aux:pass |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 hidden | advmod |
| 21 | snugly | snugly | ADV | _ | 22 hidden | advmod |
| 22 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 swung | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 hidden | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Andrew | least | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | Andrew not said here | a branch | handy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | swing up | past | Andrew | Andrew | by branch | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by it=Location | |||
| 4 | hide away | past · passive | Andrew not said here | away, snugly, soon property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V» |
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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