Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 94
Well, the princess looked at her father, and by my word, she came over to Tom, and put her two delicate hands into his two rough ones, and I wish it was myself was in his shoes that day!
Who acts: princess, I, half, my · What happens: look, come over, put, wish, be, word · To what, where: Tom, princess, shoes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, I, half, my), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 word | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 word | nmod:poss |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 word | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Tom | case |
| 19 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 came | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 put | obj |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hands | nummod |
| 25 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hands | amod |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 put | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 ones | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 ones | nmod:poss |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 ones | nummod |
| 30 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ones | amod |
| 31 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 put | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wish | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wish | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 wish | nsubj |
| 35 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 shoes | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 shoes | cop |
| 38 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 42 shoes | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 shoes | cop |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 shoes | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 42 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wish | ccomp |
| 43 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 day | det |
| 44 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wish | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the princess | at princess's father | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at father=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come over | past | princess | Tom | by my word; over property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tom=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | princess not said here | princess | into Tom's two rough ones | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Asset hand=Goal | |||
| 4 | wish | present | I | day | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | is | past | half | Tom's shoes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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