Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 194
I drew the dart as best I could, and I set it in his eye.
Who acts: I · What happens: draw, set · To what, where: dart, eye
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), 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 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dart | det |
| 4 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 best | case |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 drew | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 best | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 eye | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eye | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | I | the dart | as best | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent dart=Result as good=Attribute | |||
| 2 | set | past | I | dart | weapon's eye | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in eye=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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