Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 15
When the time came the shepherd knew his love by the strap of her sandal.
Who acts: time, shepherd · What happens: come, know, love · To what, where: love
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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shepherd | det |
| 6 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod:poss |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 strap | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 strap | det |
| 12 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sandal | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sandal | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sandal | sandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strap | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | past | the shepherd | shepherd's love | by the strap of Myddvai's sandal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | love | shepherd | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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