Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.", sentence 1
And with that what did my grandfather see, but Patrick unslinging himself from the spit and his eyes glared and his teeth glistened.
Who acts: grandfather, Patrick · What happens: see, unsling, glare, glisten · To what, where: grandfather, spit
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.". 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 see | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 see | obl |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 see | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glared | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 glared | cc |
| 11 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 glared | nsubj |
| 12 | unslinging | unsling | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Patrick | acl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 unslinging | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 spit | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spit | det |
| 16 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unslinging | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eyes | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Patrick | conj |
| 20 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 teeth | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 glared | conj |
| 24 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 glared | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | my grandfather | with that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | unsling | gerund | Patrick and grandfather's eyes not said here | grandfather | the spit | tree rules | |||
| 3 | glare | past | Patrick and grandfather's eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | glisten | participle | Patrick and grandfather's eyes not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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