Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 60
At dinner every one laughed but the foxy fellow; and sure enough he was laying out how he'd settle poor Tom next day.
Who acts: one, sure, fellow, Tom · What happens: laugh, lay out, settle, day · To what, where: dinner
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, sure, fellow, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 dinner | case |
| 2 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | obl |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 fellow | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fellow | det |
| 8 | foxy | foxy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fellow | amod |
| 9 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 laying | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laying | cc |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 laying | nsubj |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 sure | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laying | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laying | aux |
| 16 | laying | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 laughed | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 laying | compound:prt |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 settle | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 settle | nsubj |
| 20 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 settle | aux |
| 21 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 laying | advcl |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 23 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 day | nsubj |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 settle | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | every one | dinner | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay out | past · progressive | sure | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | settle | would | fellow | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | day | Tom | tree rules |
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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