Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 161
I looked myself on the boat to see how I might get part of them.
Who acts: I · What happens: look, see, get · To what, where: myself, part · 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 (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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | advcl |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 get | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | ccomp |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 part | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | I | myself | on the boat | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on boat=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | might | I | part of ropes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus |
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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