Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 13
It has been suggested that the conjurors hypnotise the spectators, and make them believe they see these things.
Who acts: conjurors, spectators · What happens: suggest, hypnotise, make, believe, see · To what, where: tiger, spectators, things · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (conjurors, spectators), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 suggested | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suggested | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 suggested | aux:pass |
| 4 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 hypnotise | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 conjurors | det |
| 7 | conjurors | conjuror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hypnotise | nsubj |
| 8 | hypnotise | hypnotise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suggested | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spectators | det |
| 10 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hypnotise | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hypnotise | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 believe | ccomp |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 things | det |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present · perfect · passive | tiger | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hypnotise | present | the conjurors | the spectators | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | the conjurors not said here | spectators = spectator | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | believe | infinitive | spectators = spectator not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see | present | conjurors = conjuror | this things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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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