Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 180
Then the giant laughed out HAI, HAW, HOGARAICH, and heaped on wood under the caldron.
Who acts: giant · What happens: laugh out, heap · To what, where: HAI, wood
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 (giant), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 laughed | compound:prt |
| 6 | HAI | HAI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 HAW | punct |
| 8 | HAW | HAW | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 HAI | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 HOGARAICH | punct |
| 10 | HOGARAICH | HOGARAICH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 HAI | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heaped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heaped | cc |
| 13 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 laughed | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heaped | obl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 caldron | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 caldron | det |
| 18 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heaped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh out | past | the giant | HAI and HAW and HOGARAICH | then | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hai=Theme | |||
| 2 | heap | participle | the giant not said here | wood | under the caldron | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wood=Destination |
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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