Celtic Fairy Tales, III. Field of Boliauns., sentence 6
He is generally seen (and to this day, too) working at a single shoe, _cf.
Who acts: day · What happens: see, work · To what, where: Lepracaun
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. Field of Boliauns.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux:pass |
| 3 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 day | cc |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 working | punct |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 working | advmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 too | punct |
| 13 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 day | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 shoe | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shoe | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shoe | amod |
| 17 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 working | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cf | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 cf | punct |
| 20 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shoe | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · passive | Lepracaun | day | generally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | work | gerund | this day not said here | at a single shoe and cf | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme |
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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