Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 2
To the margin of this lake the shepherd of Myddvai once led his lambs, and lay there whilst they sought pasture.
Who acts: shepherd, lambs · What happens: lead, lay, seek · To what, where: lambs, margin, pasture
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 (shepherd, lambs), 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 margin | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 margin | det |
| 3 | margin | margin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 margin | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shepherd | det |
| 8 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Myddvai | case |
| 10 | Myddvai | Myddvai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shepherd | nmod |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 led | advmod |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lambs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 led | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 led | conj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lay | advmod |
| 19 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 21 sought | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sought | nsubj |
| 21 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lay | advcl |
| 22 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sought | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the shepherd of Myddvai | shepherd's lambs | the margin of this lake | once property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme to margin=Destination | ||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | the shepherd of Myddvai not said here | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | lambs = lamb | pasture | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=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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