Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 7
But after a time the good people began to suspect that something was wrong, for the twins didn't grow at all.
Who acts: good people, something, twins · What happens: begin, suspect, be, not grow · To what, where: all
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 (good people, something, twins), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 suspect | mark |
| 10 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 wrong | mark |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 wrong | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wrong | cop |
| 14 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 suspect | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grow | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 grow | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 twins | det |
| 18 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grow | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 grow | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 grow | advmod |
| 21 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 suspect | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 grow | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the good people | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | suspect | to-infinitive | the good people not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | something | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not grow | past · do-support | the twins | all | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
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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