Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 37
So one stood forward, with sword and pot-lid, and made a cut at Tom.
Who acts: one · What happens: stand, make · To what, where: cut, Tom
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 (one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sword | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lid | cc |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lid | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 pot | punct |
| 11 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cut | det |
| 16 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Tom | case |
| 18 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | one | with sword and pot lid; forward property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | one not said here | a cut | Tom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cut=Product |
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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