Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 114
I heard a great clattering coming, and what was there but a great giant and two dozen of goats with him, and a buck at their head.
Who acts: I, great clattering · What happens: hear, come, be · To what, where: great clattering
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, great clattering), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 clattering | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clattering | amod |
| 5 | clattering | clattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 clattering | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 there | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 there | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 there | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 there | cop |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 heard | parataxis |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 giant | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 giant | amod |
| 15 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 there | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dozen | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 dozen | nummod |
| 18 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 heard | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 goats | case |
| 20 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dozen | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 goats | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 buck | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 buck | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 buck | det |
| 26 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 buck | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | I | a great clattering | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer clattering=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | a great clattering not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | there property | 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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