Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 66
When they came in, in very deed I myself had no liking for their company. '
Who acts: cows, I · What happens: come in, have · To what, where: liking
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 (cows, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 deed | case |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 deed | advmod |
| 8 | deed | deed | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 9 I | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 liking | det |
| 13 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 company | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 company | nmod:poss |
| 16 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 liking | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | cows = cow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | I | no liking | for cows's company; deed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liking=Patient |
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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