Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 64
We went into the herd's bothy, and we took the cow and the calf in with us, and we were letting the shower pass from us.
Who acts: We · What happens: go, take in, let · To what, where: bothy, cow, shower pass
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 bothy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 herd | det |
| 5 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bothy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 herd | case |
| 7 | bothy | bothy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cow | det |
| 13 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 calf | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 calf | det |
| 16 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cow | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 letting | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 letting | cc |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 letting | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 letting | aux |
| 24 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 took | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pass | det |
| 26 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pass | compound |
| 27 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 letting | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 us | case |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 letting | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | We | the herd's bothy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bothy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take in | past | we | the cow and the calf | with us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cow=Destination | |||
| 3 | let | past · progressive | we | the shower pass | from us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=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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