Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 29
He went over to it, and observed it closely, and saw that there were seven little branches coming out of the stalk, and seven leaves growing on every branch_een_ of them; and that there was a white sap in the leaves. "
Who acts: sun, seven little branches, seven leaves · What happens: go over, observe, see, be, come out, grow · To what, where: house, stalk, een _, branch, white sap, leaves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sun, seven little branches, seven leaves), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 observed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 observed | cc |
| 8 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 observed | obj |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 8 observed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 were | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 were | expl |
| 16 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 branches | nummod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 branches | amod |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 were | nsubj |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 branches | acl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 stalk | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 stalk | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stalk | det |
| 24 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leaves | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 leaves | cc |
| 27 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 leaves | nummod |
| 28 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | parataxis |
| 29 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 leaves | acl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 branch | case |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 branch | det |
| 32 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 growing | obl |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 _ | punct |
| 34 | een | een | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 _ | nummod |
| 35 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 growing | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 _ | nmod |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 sap | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sap | cc |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 was | mark |
| 41 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 42 was | expl |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 sap | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 sap | det |
| 44 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 sap | amod |
| 45 | sap | SAP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 leaves | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 leaves | det |
| 48 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 sap | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go over | past | sun | house | over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | observe | past | sun not said here | house | closely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | see | past | sun not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | past | seven little branches | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come out | gerund | seven little branches not said here | the stalk | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stalk=Result | ||||
| 6 | grow | gerund | seven leaves not said here | een _ of branches | every branch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on branch=Location | |||
| 7 | is a | past | a white sap | the leaves | tree rules |
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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