Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 84
So I leapt out at a turf window that was at the back of the house.
Who acts: I, that · What happens: leapt out, be · To what, where: turf window, back
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, that), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 leapt | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 leapt | nsubj |
| 3 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 leapt | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 7 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 window | compound |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leapt | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 back | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 back | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 back | det |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 window | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 back | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt out | present | I | a turf window and the back | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | the back | of the house | 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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