Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 37
And the Lepracaun swore right away not to touch it.
Who acts: Lepracaun · What happens: swear, not touch · To what, where: mind
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lepracaun), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 swore | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lepracaun | det |
| 3 | Lepracaun | Lepracaun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 swore | nsubj |
| 4 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 swore | advmod |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 touch | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 touch | mark |
| 9 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 swore | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 touch | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | the Lepracaun | away property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not touch | to-infinitive | the Lepracaun not said here | mind | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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