Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 141
He threw the ring on the flat ground, I went myself and I lifted the ring, and I put it on my finger.
Who acts: Conall, I · What happens: throw, go, lift, put · To what, where: ring, flat ground, myself, finger
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 (Conall, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 7 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ground | amod |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | parataxis |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 went | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lifted | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 lifted | nsubj |
| 15 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ring | det |
| 17 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lifted | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 finger | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 finger | nmod:poss |
| 25 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Conall | the ring | the flat ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | I | myself | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lift | past | I | the ring | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | past | I | ring | my finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=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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