Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 8
Once, when dining with the Lord-Lieutenant, an apology was made to him for placing him so far away from the head of the table. "
Who acts: Lord Lieutenant · What happens: dine, make, place · To what, where: apology, man
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord Lieutenant), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 dining | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dining | advmod |
| 4 | dining | dine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Lieutenant | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lieutenant | det |
| 7 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lieutenant | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lord | punct |
| 9 | Lieutenant | Lieutenant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dining | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 apology | det |
| 12 | apology | apology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Lieutenant | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obl |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 placing | mark |
| 18 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 made | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 placing | obj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 far | advmod |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 placing | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 head | det |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 away | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 table | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 table | det |
| 28 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 head | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dining | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dine | gerund | with the Lord Lieutenant; once property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the Lord Lieutenant not said here | a apology | man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 3 | place | gerund | the Lord Lieutenant not said here | man | away property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=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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