Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 11
It made the woman very sad, so one evening she made up her mind to go and see the Wise Man of Llanidloes, for he knew everything and would advise her what to do.
Who acts: neighbour, woman, strife · What happens: make, make up, go, see, know, advise · To what, where: woman, mind, Wise Man, everything
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 (neighbour, woman, strife), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sad | advmod |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 made | advmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 evening | nummod |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 made | compound:prt |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Man | det |
| 21 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Man | amod |
| 22 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Llanidloes | case |
| 24 | Llanidloes | llanidloe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Man | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 knew | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 knew | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 knew | nsubj |
| 28 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | advcl |
| 29 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 knew | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 advise | cc |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 advise | aux |
| 32 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 knew | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 advise | obj |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 do | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 advise | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | neighbour | the woman | sad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material woman=Product | |||
| 2 | make up | past | woman | woman's mind | evening | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | woman not said here | the Wise Man of Llanidloes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | know | past | strife | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | advise speech: other | would | strife not said here | woman | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | mind | woman | 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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