Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 122
I got heather and I made a rubber of it, and I set him upright in the caldron.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, make, set · To what, where: heather, rubber, leech
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rubber | det |
| 8 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rubber | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | obj |
| 16 | upright | upright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 set | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 caldron | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 caldron | det |
| 19 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 upright | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | heather | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heather=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past | I | a rubber of rubber | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubber=Product | ||||
| 3 | set | past | I | leech | upright property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=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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