Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 19
Acorn before oak I knew, An egg before a hen, But I never heard of an eggshell brew A dinner for harvest men.
Who acts: Acorn, I · What happens: know, not hear, brew · To what, where: egg, dinner · 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 (Acorn, I), 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 | Acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 oak | case |
| 3 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Acorn | nmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 egg | punct |
| 7 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 egg | det |
| 8 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 hen | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hen | det |
| 11 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 heard | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 heard | advmod |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 eggshell | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 eggshell | det |
| 19 | eggshell | eggshell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 20 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 heard | ccomp |
| 21 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dinner | det |
| 22 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brew | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 24 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 men | compound |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Acorn before oak | a egg | before a hen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not hear | past | I | of a eggshell | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | brew | infinitive | a dinner | for harvest men | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dinner=Product for man=Beneficiary |
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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