Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 10

When they came ashore he offered his bread as before, and the maiden tasted it and sang:

Who acts: maidens, Tis, maiden · What happens: come, offer, taste, sing · To what, where: bread

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, Tis, maiden), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 offered	advcl
4	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 offered	nsubj
6	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bread	nmod:poss
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offered	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	6 offered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tasted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tasted	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 maiden	det
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tasted	nsubj
15	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 offered	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tasted	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sang	cc
18	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tasted	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	maidens = maiden		ashore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	offer	past	Tis	Tis's bread		vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bread=Pivot as before=Attribute
3	taste	past	the maiden	bread		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
4	sing speech: express	past	the maiden not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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