Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 23
The king's gillies came to seek the bran, and they took the five sacks with them, and they emptied them before the horses.
Who acts: gillies · What happens: come, seek, take, empty · To what, where: bran, five sacks, sacks
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 (gillies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gillies | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | gillies | gillie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seek | mark |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bran | det |
| 9 | bran | bran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seek | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sacks | det |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sacks | nummod |
| 16 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 emptied | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 emptied | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 emptied | nsubj |
| 22 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 emptied | obj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 horses | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 horses | det |
| 26 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 emptied | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king's gillies | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | the king's gillies not said here | the bran | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bran=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | gillies = gillie | the five sacks | with sacks = sack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | |||
| 4 | empty | past | gillies = gillie | sacks = sack | before the horses | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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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