Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 18
The years passed happily, and three children were born to the shepherd and the lake-maiden.
Who acts: years · What happens: pass, bear · To what, where: three children
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 (years), 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 | 2 years | det |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 born | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 born | cc |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 children | nummod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 born | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 born | aux:pass |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 passed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 shepherd | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shepherd | det |
| 13 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 born | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 maiden | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 maiden | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 lake | punct |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shepherd | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the years | happily property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | three children | to the shepherd and the lake maiden | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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