Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 99
The stalwart men hastened, and when they saw how the cats served the tree, they began at them with the spades; and they themselves and the cats began at each other, till the cats ran away.
Who acts: stalwart men, places, cats · What happens: hasten, see, serve, begin, run away · To what, where: tree, each
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 (stalwart men, places, cats), 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 | 3 men | det |
| 2 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | compound |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hastened | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hastened | parataxis |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 served | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cats | det |
| 12 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 served | nsubj |
| 13 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 served | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 began | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 spades | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spades | det |
| 23 | spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 began | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 began | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 began | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 began | nsubj |
| 27 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 26 they | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 began | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cats | det |
| 30 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 began | nsubj |
| 31 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hastened | parataxis |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 each | case |
| 33 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 31 began | obl |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 each | fixed |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ran | punct |
| 36 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 39 ran | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 cats | det |
| 38 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 ran | nsubj |
| 39 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 began | conj |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 39 ran | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the stalwart men | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | see | past | places = place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | serve | past | the cats | the tree | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | places = place | at window; with the spades | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with spade=Subeventuality | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | places = place | each | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | run away | past | the cats | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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