English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 16
To-day I crossed the sea and saw you for the first time and I was glad to be a bird that I could come near you.
Who acts: I, bird · What happens: cross, see, be, come · To what, where: sea, you, bird
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bird), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 crossed | nsubj |
| 5 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crossed | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 glad | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 glad | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | cop |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bird | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bird | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bird | det |
| 22 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 glad | ccomp |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 come | nsubj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bird | acl:relcl |
| 27 | near | near | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 come | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | I | the sea | day | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | past | I not said here | you | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | a bird | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | could | a bird | near you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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