Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 14
When they reached Lochlann they did not know what they should do.
Who acts: sons · What happens: reach, not know, do · To what, where: Lochlann · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sons), 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 | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | advcl |
| 4 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 know | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | sons = son | Lochlann | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lochlann=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | sons = son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | should | sons = son | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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