Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 100
And surely, oh king, I did not move till I saw the last one of them off.
Who acts: I · What happens: not move, see off · To what, where: last one
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 5 king | cc |
| 2 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 king | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 4 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 king | discourse |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 move | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 move | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 move | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 move | advmod |
| 10 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 king | parataxis |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 saw | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 move | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 saw | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | past · do-support | I | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see off | past | I | the last one of places | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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