Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 71
No sooner said I the word than the two cats and ten went down to attack the calf, and in very deed, he did not last them long. '
Who acts: I, ten, calf · What happens: say, go down, attack, not last · To what, where: word, calf, words, deed · 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 (I, ten, calf), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 cats | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cats | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 cats | nummod |
| 10 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cats | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 attack | mark |
| 16 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 calf | det |
| 18 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 attack | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 last | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 last | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 deed | case |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 deed | advmod |
| 23 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 last | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 deed | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 last | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 last | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 last | advmod |
| 28 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 last | obj |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 last | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 last | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | the word | than the two cats; soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go down | past | ten | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attack | to-infinitive | ten not said here | the calf | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not last | past · do-support | calf | words = word | deed | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value |
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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