Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 33
Then she, looking round upon her home, called to the cattle she had brought with her:
Who acts: blow · What happens: look round, call, bring · To what, where: cattle · 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 (blow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 looking | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 looking | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looking | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 cattle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cattle | det |
| 13 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | aux |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 cattle | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | gerund | blow | then | upon blow's home; round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon home=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | blow not said here | the cattle | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cattle=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect | blow | the cattle not said here | with cattle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cattle=Destination |
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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