Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 34
If the noise was great that he made before, the noise he made now was seven times greater.
Who acts: noise, Conall · What happens: be, make · To what, where: noise
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 (noise, Conall), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 great | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 noise | det |
| 3 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 great | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | cop |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 made | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | advcl |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 made | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 greater | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 noise | det |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 greater | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 noise | acl:relcl |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 greater | advmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 greater | cop |
| 17 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 times | nummod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 greater | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 made | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the noise | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Conall | before property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Conall | the noise not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the noise | now; time | great property | 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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