Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 243
The poor shoemaker thought that they had taken a turn in their understandings, and he went himself to the well.
Who acts: poor shoemaker, companions, shoemaker · What happens: think, take, go, understand · To what, where: turn, understandings, shoemaker, well · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor shoemaker, companions, shoemaker), 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 | 3 shoemaker | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shoemaker | amod |
| 3 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 taken | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 taken | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 turn | det |
| 10 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 understandings | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 understandings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | understandings | understanding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 went | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 well | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 well | det |
| 21 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the poor shoemaker | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | companions = companion | a turn | companions's understandings | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent turn=Value in understanding=Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | shoemaker | shoemaker | the well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | understand | companions = companion | nom understanding «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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