Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 177
I went to the caldron, and by luck it was not hot, so in it I got just as the brute came in. '
Who acts: I, luck, brute · What happens: go, not be, get, come in · To what, where: caldron
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, luck, brute), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 caldron | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 caldron | det |
| 5 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hot | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hot | cc |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 luck | case |
| 9 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hot | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hot | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hot | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 hot | advmod |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 got | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brute | det |
| 23 | brute | brute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | the caldron | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to caldron=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | luck | by luck; hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | luck | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come in | past | the brute | 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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