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Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 13

A third time did the shepherd of Myddvai try to attract the maiden, and this time he offered her bread that he had found floating about near the shore.

Who acts: third time, shepherd · What happens: do, try, attract, offer, find, float · To what, where: shepherd, maiden, bread, Myddvai, shore

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 (third time, shepherd), 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

detamodnsubjdetobjcaseoblacl:relclmarkxcompdetobjpunctccdetobl:unmarkednsubjconjiobjoblmarknsubjauxadvclxcompadvmodcasedetoblpunctrootADETthirdADJtimeNOUNdidVERBtheDETshepherdNOUNofADPMyddvaiPROPNtryVERBtoPARTattractVERBtheDETmaidenNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthisDETtimeNOUNhePRONofferedVERBherPRONbreadNOUNthatSCONJhePRONhadAUXfoundVERBfloatingVERBaboutADVnearADPtheDETshoreNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 timedet
2thirdthirdADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord3 timeamod
3timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing4 didnsubj
4diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 shepherddet
6shepherdshepherdNOUNNumber=Sing4 didobj
7ofofADP_8 Myddvaicase
8MyddvaiMyddvaiPROPNNumber=Sing9 tryobl
9trytryVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 shepherdacl:relcl
10totoPART_11 attractmark
11attractattractVERBVerbForm=Inf9 tryxcomp
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 maidendet
13maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing11 attractobj
14,,PUNCT_19 offeredpunct
15andandCCONJ_19 offeredcc
16thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem17 timedet
17timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing19 offeredobl:unmarked
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 offerednsubj
19offeredofferVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 didconj
20hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 offerediobj
21breadbreadNOUNNumber=Sing19 offeredobl
22thatthatSCONJ_25 foundmark
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 foundnsubj
24hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 foundaux
25foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part19 offeredadvcl
26floatingfloatVERBVerbForm=Ger25 foundxcomp
27aboutaboutADV_26 floatingadvmod
28nearnearADP_30 shorecase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 shoredet
30shoreshoreNOUNNumber=Sing26 floatingobl
31..PUNCT_4 didpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopasta third timethe shepherdvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Eventuality
2trypresentthe shepherd not said hereof Myddvaivn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3attract not said to happento-infinitivethe shepherd not said herethe maidenvn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient
4offerpastshepherdbreadMyddvaitimevn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5findpast · perfectshepherdvn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6floatgerundshepherd not said herethe shoreabout propertyvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near shore=Trajectory

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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