Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 59
It was all the poor divel of a wolf wanted: he put his tail between his legs, and took to his pumps without looking at man or mortal, and neither sun, moon, or stars ever saw him in sight of Dublin again.
Who acts: flourish, wolf, stars · What happens: be, want, put, take, look, see · To what, where: poor divel, tail, legs, wolf, sight, Dublin
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 (flourish, wolf, stars), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 divel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 divel | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 divel | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 divel | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 divel | amod |
| 6 | divel | divel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 wanted | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wolf | det |
| 9 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 divel | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 divel | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 legs | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 legs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 pumps | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pumps | nmod:poss |
| 24 | pumps | pump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | obl |
| 25 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 26 looking | mark |
| 26 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 took | advcl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 man | case |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looking | obl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 mortal | cc |
| 30 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 man | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sun | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sun | cc |
| 33 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 sun | det |
| 34 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 moon | punct |
| 36 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sun | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 saw | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 saw | cc |
| 39 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 saw | nsubj |
| 40 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 41 saw | advmod |
| 41 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 saw | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 sight | case |
| 44 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 saw | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Dublin | case |
| 46 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 sight | nmod |
| 47 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 saw | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 divel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | flourish | all poor divel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | a wolf | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | put | past | wolf | wolf's tail | wolf's legs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme between leg=Destination | |||
| 4 | take | past | wolf not said here | to wolf's pumps result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pump=Result | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | wolf not said here | at man or mortal | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at man=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | past | stars | wolf | sight of Dublin | ever; again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 7 | sight | Dublin | nom sight «cognition 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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