Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 94

The cats began again digging wildly, and they broke the next root; and I myself gave the next shout, and in very deed it was not a weak one. '

Who acts: cats, places, I, shout · What happens: begin, dig, break, give, dee, not be · To what, where: next root, next shout, weak one

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 (cats, places, I, shout), 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 cats	det
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
5	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
6	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	5 digging	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 broke	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 broke	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 broke	nsubj
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 root	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 root	amod
13	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broke	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
17	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shout	det
20	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shout	amod
21	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 deed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 deed	cc
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 deed	mark
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 deed	advmod
26	deed	dee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 one	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 one	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 one	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 one	det
31	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 one	amod
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 deed	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the cats		again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dig	gerund	the cats not said here			wildly property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	break	past	places = place	the next root			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer root=Patient
4	give	past	I	the next shout			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme
5	dee	past	I not said here				tree rules
6	not is a	past	shout	a weak one			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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