Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 146
The brute went and went towards where the ring was speaking, and now I saw that I was in a harder case than ever I was.
Who acts: brute, ring, I · What happens: go, speak, see, be · To what, where: harder case · 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 (brute, ring, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brute | det |
| 2 | brute | brute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 speaking | advmod |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 speaking | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 speaking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 speaking | aux |
| 11 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 case | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 case | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 case | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 case | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 case | det |
| 22 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 case | amod |
| 23 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 ever | case |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 case | nmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 was | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 case | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the brute | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the brute not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | the ring | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | past | I | a harder case | 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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