Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 196
And he fell cold dead where he was; and you may be sure, oh king, that joy was on me.
Who acts: weapon, you, joy · What happens: fall, be
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 (weapon, you, joy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fell | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dead | amod |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 was | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sure | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 king | punct |
| 16 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 17 king | discourse |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sure | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 me | punct |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 joy | det |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 me | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 me | cop |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 king | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | weapon | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | dead property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that joy | on me | tree rules |
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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