Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 48
If he had kept still before, he kept stiller now.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: keep · To what, where: grandfather
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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 kept | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 kept | advcl |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 before | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | stiller | still | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 kept | xcomp |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 kept | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | grandfather | before property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | grandfather | now | still property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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