Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 100
MAN OR WOMAN BOY OR GIRL THAT READS WHAT FOLLOWS 3 TIMES SHALL FALL ASLEEP AN HUNDRED YEARS
Who acts: GIRL, MAN · What happens: read, follow, fall
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 (GIRL, MAN), 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 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 FALL | nsubj |
| 2 | OR | of | ADP | _ | 4 BOY | case |
| 3 | WOMAN | woman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 BOY | amod |
| 4 | BOY | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 MAN | nmod |
| 5 | OR | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 GIRL | cc |
| 6 | GIRL | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 BOY | conj |
| 7 | THAT | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 READS | nsubj |
| 8 | READS | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 GIRL | acl:relcl |
| 9 | WHAT | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 FOLLOWS | nsubj |
| 10 | FOLLOWS | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 READS | conj |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 TIMES | nummod |
| 12 | TIMES | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 FOLLOWS | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | SHALL | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 FALL | aux |
| 14 | FALL | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | ASLEEP | asleep | ADV | _ | 14 FALL | advmod |
| 16 | AN | an | ADV | _ | 17 HUNDRED | advmod |
| 17 | HUNDRED | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 YEARS | nummod |
| 18 | YEARS | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 FALL | obl:unmarked |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | GIRL | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | follow | present | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | shall | MAN of WOMAN BOY or GIRL | year | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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