Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 23
Another time they were at a wedding, when suddenly the lake-maiden fell a-sobbing and a-weeping, amid the joy and mirth of all around her.
Who acts: gloves · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: wedding, sobbing
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 (gloves), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wedding | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wedding | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 wedding | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 maiden | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 maiden | mark |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 14 maiden | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 maiden | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 lake | punct |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wedding | conj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sobbing | det |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 a | punct |
| 18 | sobbing | sobbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 weeping | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 weeping | det |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 a | punct |
| 22 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sobbing | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 amid | punct |
| 24 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sobbing | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 joy | det |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 amid | appos |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mirth | cc |
| 28 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 joy | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 her | advmod |
| 31 | around | around | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 mirth | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gloves = glove | a wedding | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | gloves = glove not said here | suddenly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | a sobbing and a weeping and amid | time | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sobbing=Result |
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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