Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 62
There's the Danes moidhering us to no end.
Who acts: Danes · What happens: be, moidher · To what, where: us
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 (Danes), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Danes | det |
| 4 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 's | nsubj |
| 5 | moidhering | moidher | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Danes | acl |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 moidhering | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moidhering | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | the Danes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | moidher | gerund | the Danes not said here | us | to no end | 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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