Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 81
The earth shook under the sole of his feet, and the castle shook and all that was in it.
Who acts: earth, castle, that · What happens: shake, be · To what, where: sole
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 (earth, castle, that), 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 earth | det |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 sole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sole | det |
| 6 | sole | sole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sole | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shook | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shook | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shook | nsubj |
| 14 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 it | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 it | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 it | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 it | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shook | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the earth | the sole of earth's feet | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sole=Location | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | the castle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | that | sole | 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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