Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 15
Grainne won him with dire consequences, as all the world knows or ought to know (Kennedy, _Legend Fict.
Who acts: Grainne, world · What happens: win, know · To what, where: Finn, Kennedy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grainne, world), 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 | Grainne | Grainne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 won | nsubj |
| 2 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 won | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 consequences | case |
| 5 | dire | dire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 consequences | amod |
| 6 | consequences | consequence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 won | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knows | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 knows | mark |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 world | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 won | parataxis |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 14 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knows | ccomp |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Kennedy | punct |
| 18 | Kennedy | Kennedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 know | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 knows | punct |
| 21 | Legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knows | conj |
| 22 | Fict | Fict | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Legend | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | Grainne | Finn | with dire consequences | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | know | present | all world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know | ought | Kennedy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kennedy=Stimulus |
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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