Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 191
But with every ill that befell me I got the spear loosed from him.
Who acts: ill, I, spear · What happens: befall, get, loose · 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 (ill, I, spear), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 6 befell | mark |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ill | det |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 befell | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 befell | nsubj |
| 6 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 befell | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spear | det |
| 11 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loosed | nsubj |
| 12 | loosed | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loosed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past | every ill | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | loose | past | the spear | from weapon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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