Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 30
But an envious wizened bit of a fellow, with a red head, that wished to be married to the princess, and didn't like how she opened her eyes at Tom, came forward, and asked his business very snappishly.
Who acts: that, princess · What happens: wizen, wish, marry, not like, open, come forward · To what, where: envious wizened bit, eyes, Tom, business · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, princess), 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 | _ | 16 wished | cc |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 3 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bit | amod |
| 4 | wizened | wizen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bit | amod |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wished | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fellow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fellow | det |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 head | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 head | amod |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fellow | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wished | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 wished | nsubj |
| 16 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 married | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 married | aux:pass |
| 19 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wished | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 married | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 like | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 like | cc |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 like | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 like | advmod |
| 27 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wished | conj |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 opened | advmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 opened | nsubj |
| 30 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 like | advcl |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 opened | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 Tom | case |
| 34 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 opened | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 opened | conj |
| 37 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 36 came | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 asked | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 asked | cc |
| 40 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 came | parataxis |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 business | nmod:poss |
| 42 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 asked | obj |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 snappishly | advmod |
| 44 | snappishly | snappishly | ADV | _ | 40 asked | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wizen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | wish | past | that | a envious wizened bit of a fellow and a red head | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | to the princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to princess=Co-Patient | |||||
| 4 | not like | past · do-support | that not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | open | past | princess | princess's eyes | Tom | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme at tom=Location | |||
| 6 | come forward | past | princess not said here | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | Tom's business | snappishly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent business=Recipient |
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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