Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.", sentence 2
It was neither stop nor stay my grandfather made, but out he ran into the night of the wood.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: be, make, run · To what, where: stop
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:1855): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stop | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | cop |
| 3 | neither | neither | CCONJ | _ | 4 stop | cc:preconj |
| 4 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 stay | cc |
| 6 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | conj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 night | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | stop nor stay | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | my grandfather | stop nor stay not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Product | ||||
| 3 | run | past | grandfather | night | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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