Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 5
They had more than mortal beauty, and he was filled with love for her that came nearest to him.
Who acts: drops, Myddvai · What happens: have, fill, come · To what, where: more, shepherd
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, Myddvai), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 beauty | case |
| 5 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beauty | amod |
| 6 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 filled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 filled | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 filled | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 filled | aux:pass |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filled | obl |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 filled | advcl |
| 18 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 came | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 nearest | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | drops = drop | more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | shepherd | with love | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with love=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Myddvai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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