Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 14
Begonies, he made the big faggot dance home, with himself sitting on it.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: make, sit · To what, where: big faggot dance, dance
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 (Tom), 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 | Begonies | begony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Begonies | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dance | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dance | amod |
| 7 | faggot | faggot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dance | compound |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sitting | punct |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 sitting | mark |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 sitting | nsubj |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 made | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sitting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Tom | the big faggot dance | Begonies vocative; home property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Product | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | Tom | dance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=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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