Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.", sentence 4
You can't wonder at my grandfather thinking and thinking and not minding the fire.
Who acts: You · What happens: not wonder, think, not mind · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonder | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wonder | advmod |
| 4 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 grandfather | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wonder | obl |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 wonder | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thinking | cc |
| 10 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 thinking | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 minding | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 minding | advmod |
| 13 | minding | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 thinking | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 minding | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wonder speech: ask | can | You | at my grandfather | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not mind | gerund | the fire | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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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