Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 10
And so arose the great strife so that the neighbours named the cottage after it.
Who acts: neighbours · What happens: arise, name · To what, where: great strife, cottage
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbours), 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 | _ | 3 arose | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 arose | advmod |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 strife | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strife | amod |
| 6 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | obj |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 named | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 so | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 neighbours | det |
| 10 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 named | nsubj |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cottage | det |
| 13 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 named | obj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 named | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the great strife | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location strife=Theme | |||||
| 2 | name | past | the neighbours | the cottage | after cottage | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme |
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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