Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 64
There is a flail hangin' on the collar-beam, in hell, and neither Dane nor devil can stand before it."
Who acts: flail hangin, Dane · What happens: be, stand
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 (flail hangin, Dane), 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 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hangin | det |
| 4 | flail | flail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hangin | compound |
| 5 | hangin | hangin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hangin | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 beam | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beam | det |
| 9 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beam | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 collar | punct |
| 11 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hangin | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hell | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hell | case |
| 14 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hangin | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stand | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stand | cc |
| 17 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 Dane | det |
| 18 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 stand | nsubj |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 devil | cc |
| 20 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Dane | conj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stand | aux |
| 22 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 is | parataxis |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stand | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | a flail hangin on the collar beam and hell | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | can | neither Dane nor devil | before devil | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=Location |
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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