Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 120
The giant went and he drew the great caldron on the site of the fire.
Who acts: giant, leech · What happens: go, draw · To what, where: great caldron, site
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 (giant, leech), 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 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 drew | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 caldron | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 caldron | amod |
| 9 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 site | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 site | det |
| 12 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 site | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the giant | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | leech | the great caldron | the site of the fire | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent caldron=Theme on site=Destination |
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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