Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 13
It was a good trick you played on us last year?"
Who acts: trick, you · What happens: be, play · To what, where: good trick
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trick, you), 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 | 5 trick | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trick | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trick | amod |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 played | nsubj |
| 7 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 played | obl |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 played | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | trick | a good trick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | past | you | a good trick not said here | year | on us | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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