Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 4
Shaking the bright drops from their hair and gliding to the shore, they wandered about amongst his flock.
Who acts: drops · What happens: shake, glide, wander · To what, where: bright drops, hair, shore, flock
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 (drops), 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 | Shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 wandered | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 drops | det |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drops | amod |
| 4 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shaking | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hair | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drops | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gliding | cc |
| 9 | gliding | glide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Shaking | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 shore | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shore | det |
| 12 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gliding | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shaking | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wandered | nsubj |
| 15 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 wandered | advmod |
| 17 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 19 flock | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 flock | nmod:poss |
| 19 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wandered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | gerund | drops = drop not said here | the bright drops | drops's hair | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent drop=Theme from hair=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | glide | gerund | drops = drop not said here | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination | ||||
| 3 | wander | past | drops = drop | shepherd's flock | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst flock=Trajectory |
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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