Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 12
In the same manner a hog, a panther, a lion, and a tiger were successively sent up the chain."
Who acts: manner hog · What happens: send up · To what, where: tiger
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: who acts (manner hog), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 manner | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 manner | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 manner | amod |
| 4 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hog | compound |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hog | det |
| 6 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 panther | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 panther | det |
| 9 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hog | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lion | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lion | det |
| 12 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hog | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sent | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tiger | det |
| 16 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sent | aux:pass |
| 18 | successively | successively | ADV | _ | 19 sent | advmod |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hog | acl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 sent | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chain | det |
| 22 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hog | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send up | past · passive | a manner hog and a panther and a lion not said here | a tiger | successively property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination chain=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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