Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 7
However, in he walked, after tying up his horse, and right welcome was the brushwood fire blazing on the hearth.
Who acts: clearing, right welcome, brushwood fire · What happens: walk, tie up, be, blaze · To what, where: horse, brushwood fire, hearth
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 (clearing, right welcome, brushwood fire), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 walked | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tying | punct |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 tying | mark |
| 8 | tying | tie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 walked | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 tying | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fire | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fire | cc |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 welcome | amod |
| 15 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fire | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fire | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 18 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fire | compound |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 20 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 fire | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 hearth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hearth | det |
| 23 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blazing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | clearing | however property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tie up | gerund | clearing not said here | clearing's horse | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | right welcome | the brushwood fire | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | blaze | gerund | the brushwood fire not said here | the hearth | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hearth=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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