Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!", sentence 2
And when he looked around, where should he find himself but in the very cabin he had first met Patrick in.
Who acts: man · What happens: look around, find, meet · To what, where: man, Patrick, cabin
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 looked | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 find | advmod |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 looked | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 met | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cabin | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cabin | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 cabin | advmod |
| 16 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 met | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 met | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 met | aux |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 met | advmod |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 find | conj |
| 21 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 met | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 met | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | man | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | find | should | man | man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||||
| 3 | meet | past · perfect | man | Patrick | the cabin | first property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patrick=Co-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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