Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 165
The place was without meat or clothing, without the appearance of a house on it.
Who acts: place · What happens: be
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 (place), 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 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meat | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 meat | cop |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 meat | case |
| 5 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 clothing | cc |
| 7 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meat | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 appearance | punct |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 appearance | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 appearance | det |
| 11 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meat | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appearance | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 house | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 meat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the place | without meat or clothing and the appearance of a house on house | 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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