Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 36
It was not bitter, and, indeed, had a sweet, agreeable taste.
Who acts: cup · What happens: not be, have · To what, where: sweet agreeable taste
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 (cup), 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 bitter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bitter | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bitter | advmod |
| 4 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 had | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 indeed | punct |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bitter | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 taste | det |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 taste | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sweet | punct |
| 14 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 taste | amod |
| 15 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bitter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | cup | bitter property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | cup not said here | a sweet agreeable taste | indeed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |
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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