Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 46
The king was a wary man, and he saw where the horses were making a noise.
Who acts: king, horses · What happens: be, see, make · To what, where: wary man, noise · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, horses), 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 | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | wary | wary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 making | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horses | det |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 making | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 making | aux |
| 15 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 noise | det |
| 17 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 making | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king | a wary man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | king | a wary man not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past · progressive | the horses | a noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
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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