Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 12
So she went to Llanidloes and told the case to the Wise Man.
Who acts: woman · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: Llanidloes, case, Wise Man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Llanidloes | case |
| 5 | Llanidloes | llanidloe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 case | det |
| 9 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Man | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Man | det |
| 12 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Man | amod |
| 13 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | woman | Llanidloes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to llanidloe=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | woman not said here | the case | the Wise Man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent case=Topic to man=Recipient |
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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