Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.", sentence 5
Glad he was to see a light, and a minute after he was kneeling, dazed, drenched, and bedraggled by the hearth side.
Who acts: Glad · What happens: see, kneel, daze, drench, bedraggle · To what, where: light, minute
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 (Glad), 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 | Glad | glad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dazed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dazed | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 minute | det |
| 11 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dazed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 kneeling | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kneeling | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kneeling | aux |
| 15 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 minute | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dazed | punct |
| 17 | dazed | daze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 see | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drenched | punct |
| 19 | drenched | drench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 dazed | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bedraggled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bedraggled | cc |
| 22 | bedraggled | bedraggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 dazed | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 side | det |
| 25 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 side | compound |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bedraggled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Glad | a light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kneel | past · progressive | Glad | a minute not said here | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minute=Topic | ||||
| 3 | daze | participle · passive | a minute | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | drench | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | bedraggle | participle | by the hearth side | tree rules |
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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