Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 11
A dog was then brought forward, and being placed at the lower end of the chain, immediately ran up, and, reaching the other end, immediately disappeared in the air.
What happens: bring forward, place, run up, reach, disappear · To what, where: dog, lower end, other end, air
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 brought | advmod |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 placed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 placed | cc |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 placed | aux:pass |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brought | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 13 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 end | amod |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 chain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chain | det |
| 17 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 19 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 ran | advmod |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 placed | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 ran | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 reaching | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 reaching | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 reaching | punct |
| 25 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 ran | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 end | amod |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reaching | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 disappeared | punct |
| 30 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 31 disappeared | advmod |
| 31 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brought | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 air | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 air | det |
| 34 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 disappeared | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring forward | past · passive | a dog | then | forward property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | place | gerund · passive | at the lower end of the chain | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: at end=Destination | |||||
| 3 | run up | past | immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | gerund | the other end | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme | |||||
| 5 | disappear | participle | the air | immediately property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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