Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 153
"When the giant was drowned I went in, and I took with me all he had of gold and silver, and I went home, and surely great joy was on my people when I arrived.
Who acts: ring, giant, great joy · What happens: drown, go in, take, have, go, be · To what, where: giant, all
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 (ring, giant, great joy), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 drowned | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drowned | aux:pass |
| 6 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 went | advcl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 all | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 silver | cc |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gold | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 people | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 people | cc |
| 30 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 31 great | advmod |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 joy | amod |
| 32 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 people | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 people | cop |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 people | nmod:poss |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 went | obl |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 arrived | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 arrived | nsubj |
| 39 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 went | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown in a quote | past · passive | the giant | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go in in a quote | past | the ring = ring | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | past | the ring = ring | all | with the ring = ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | giant | of gold and silver | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | past | the ring = ring | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | great joy | on my people | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | arrive in a quote | past | the ring = ring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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