Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 173
She showed me to the place where I should come in where she was.
Who acts: woman, I · What happens: show, come in, be · To what, where: me
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 (woman, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 come | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 was | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 was | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | woman | me | to the place | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to place=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come in | should | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | woman | vn exist-47.1 «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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