Celtic Fairy Tales, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., sentence 10
The smith who made hell too hot for him is Sisyphus," says Mr. Lang (Introd. to Grimm, p. xiii.); in Ireland he is Billy Dawson (Carleton, _Three Wishes_).
Who acts: smith, Lang, Tale · What happens: make, be, say · To what, where: hell, Sisyphus, Grimm, Billy Dawson, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, Lang, Tale), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smith | det |
| 2 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Sisyphus | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smith | acl:relcl |
| 5 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 hot | advmod |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Sisyphus | cop |
| 11 | Sisyphus | Sisyphus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Sisyphus | acl:relcl |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lang | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Introd | punct |
| 18 | Introd | Introd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lang | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sisyphus | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Grimm | case |
| 21 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sisyphus | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 p. | punct |
| 23 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sisyphus | appos |
| 24 | xiii | xiii | NUM | _ | 23 p. | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 p. | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 p. | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 Dawson | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Ireland | case |
| 29 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Dawson | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 Dawson | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 Dawson | cop |
| 32 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Dawson | compound |
| 33 | Dawson | Dawson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sisyphus | conj |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 Carleton | punct |
| 35 | Carleton | Carleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Dawson | flat |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sisyphus | punct |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Wishes | punct |
| 38 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 Wishes | nummod |
| 39 | Wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Sisyphus | appos |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Wishes | punct |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 Wishes | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sisyphus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the smith | hell | for Tale; hot property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hell=Product for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the smith | Sisyphus and Billy Dawson | Grimm | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Lang Mr. and Introd | Sisyphus and Billy Dawson not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sisyphus=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Tale | Billy Dawson | Ireland | 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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