Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 10
And sure enough, the wind o' the word was all it wanted.
Who acts: word · What happens: be, wind · To what, where: word
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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 | _ | 2 sure | cc |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 sure | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wind | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sure | obl |
| 7 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 10 word | case |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 word | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wind | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wanted | cop |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 wanted | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wanted | nsubj |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 word | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | word | the word not said here | all, want property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wind | the word | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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