Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 97
And the cats arose on the tree, and they broke the third root, and the tree fell on her elbow.
Who acts: cats, places, tree · What happens: arise, break, fall · To what, where: tree, third root, elbow
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, tree), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 arose | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cats | det |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 broke | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 broke | nsubj |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 root | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 root | amod |
| 14 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 elbow | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 22 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the cats | the tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | break | past | places = place | the third root | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer root=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the tree | root's elbow | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on elbow=Location |
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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