Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 65
But my grandfather couldn't get it out of his head; hadn't everybody, far and near, said Patrick had fallen overboard.
Who acts: grandfather, Patrick · What happens: not get, have, say, fall · To what, where: answer, head, everybody · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Patrick), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 3 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | advcl |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 everybody | advmod |
| 15 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 far | punct |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 had | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 near | cc |
| 19 | near | near | ADV | _ | 17 far | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 fallen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fallen | aux |
| 24 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 said | ccomp |
| 25 | overboard | overboard | ADV | _ | 24 fallen | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | could | my grandfather | answer | grandfather's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | past | my grandfather not said here | everybody | far property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | Patrick | overboard property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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