Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 210
He returned home to his wife, and they set in order a feast; and that was a feast if ever there was one, oh son and brother.
Who acts: Conall, gold, that, one son · What happens: return, set, be · To what, where: feast, order
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 (Conall, gold, that, one son), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 returned | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 order | case |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 feast | det |
| 14 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 feast | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feast | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 feast | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 feast | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 feast | det |
| 20 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | parataxis |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 was | mark |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 was | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 was | expl |
| 24 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 feast | advcl |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 son | nummod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 son | punct |
| 27 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 28 son | discourse |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 was | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brother | cc |
| 30 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 son | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Conall | to Conall's wife result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result | ||||
| 2 | set | present | gold | a feast | order | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feast=Theme in order=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | past | that | a feast | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | one son and brother | there | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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