Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.", sentence 6
The brushwood flamed, and the brushwood crackled, and soon my grandfather began to feel a little warm and dry and easy in his mind.
Who acts: brushwood, grandfather · What happens: flame, crackle, begin, feel, mind · To what, where: brushwood
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 (brushwood, grandfather), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brushwood | det |
| 2 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crackled | nsubj |
| 3 | flamed | flame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 brushwood | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crackled | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 crackled | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brushwood | det |
| 7 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crackled | nsubj |
| 8 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 began | advmod |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crackled | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 feel | mark |
| 16 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 little | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 warm | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dry | cc |
| 21 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 warm | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 easy | cc |
| 23 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 warm | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mind | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mind | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 easy | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crackled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flame | participle | the brushwood not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | crackle | past | the brushwood | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | my grandfather | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | my grandfather not said here | warm property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mind | grandfather | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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