Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 24
Sir William Temple knew of a north-country gentleman of Ireland who was sent to sleep every evening with a fresh tale from his bard.
Who acts: William · What happens: know, send, sleep · To what, where: country gentleman
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (William), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 William | nmod:desc |
| 2 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 William | flat |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gentleman | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 gentleman | det |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 country | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 north | punct |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gentleman | compound |
| 10 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Ireland | case |
| 12 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gentleman | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sent | aux:pass |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 gentleman | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sleep | mark |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sent | advcl |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 evening | det |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tale | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tale | det |
| 22 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tale | amod |
| 23 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sleep | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 bard | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bard | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tale | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | William Sir | of a country gentleman of Ireland | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of gentleman=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | a country gentleman of Ireland | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | evening | with a fresh tale from William's bard | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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