Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 25
I'll search well as soon as the sun rises, whether there's any plant growing beside the house except thistles and dockings."
Who acts: I, sun, plant · What happens: search, rise, be, grow · To what, where: house
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 (I, sun, plant), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 search | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 search | aux |
| 3 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 search | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 search | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 rises | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rises | nsubj |
| 10 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 soon | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 's | punct |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 's | mark |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 's | expl |
| 14 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 search | parataxis |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 plant | det |
| 16 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 's | nsubj |
| 17 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 plant | acl |
| 18 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 growing | obl |
| 21 | except | except | ADP | _ | 22 thistles | case |
| 22 | thistles | thistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 growing | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dockings | cc |
| 24 | dockings | docking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thistles | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 search | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 search | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | future | I | soon, well property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rise | present | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | present | any plant | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | gerund | any plant not said here | the house | except thistles and dockings | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside house=Location |
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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