Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 66
There was enough to think about, and my grandfather did think.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: be, think about, think
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 think | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 think | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 think | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | aux |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think about speech: other | to-infinitive | about property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past · do-support | my grandfather | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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