Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 3
Suddenly, from the dark waters of the lake, he saw three maidens rise.
Who acts: shepherd, three maidens · What happens: see, rise · To what, where: dark waters · Speech: someone speaks here
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, three maidens), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 waters | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waters | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 waters | amod |
| 6 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waters | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 waters | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 maidens | nummod |
| 14 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rise | nsubj |
| 15 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | shepherd | the dark waters of the lake | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | rise | present | three maidens | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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