Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 187
Everything was coming easily with me till I began to bring up my hips.
Who acts: Everything, I · What happens: come, begin, bring up · To what, where: hips
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 (Everything, 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 coming | aux |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 3 coming | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 coming | obl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 began | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 coming | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 bring | compound:prt |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hips | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hips | hip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bring | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | Everything | with me; easily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | bring up | to-infinitive | I not said here | my hips | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hip=Patient |
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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