Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 37
And to this day is the furrow seen which the plough left as it was dragged across the mountains to the tarn.
Who acts: furrow · What happens: be, see, plough, leave, drag · To what, where: furrow, seen plough, plough, mountains
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 (furrow), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 furrow | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 furrow | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 furrow | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 furrow | det |
| 7 | furrow | furrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 plough | amod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 plough | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plough | det |
| 11 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 furrow | nmod |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 plough | acl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 dragged | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dragged | aux:pass |
| 16 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 left | advcl |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 mountains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountains | det |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dragged | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 tarn | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tarn | det |
| 22 | tarn | tarn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dragged | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 furrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the furrow | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | plough | the furrow | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | leave | participle | the seen plough not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drag | past · passive | plough | the mountains | to the tarn | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to tarn=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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