Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 9
Where the Macdonald sits," was the proud response, "there is the head of the table."
Who acts: Macdonald, head · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: proud response · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Macdonald, head), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 sits | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Macdonald | det |
| 3 | Macdonald | Macdonald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 response | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 response | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 response | det |
| 9 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 response | amod |
| 10 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 response | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 head | det |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 table | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 table | det |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 response | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 response | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the Macdonald | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the proud response | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | present | the head of the table | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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