Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 110
When I was looking, what should I do but fall; and the place was so full of heather, that neither bone nor skin was broken.
Who acts: I, place · What happens: look, do, fall, be, break · To what, where: bone
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, place), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 looking | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 do | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fall | cc |
| 11 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 full | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 full | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 full | advmod |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 do | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 heather | case |
| 20 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 broken | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 broken | obj |
| 23 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 bone | det |
| 24 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 skin | cc |
| 26 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bone | conj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 broken | aux:pass |
| 28 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 full | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | should | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | I not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the place | of heather; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | break | past · passive | neither bone nor skin | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient that=Result |
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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