Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 6

He offered her the bread he had with him, and she took it and tried it, but then sang to him:

Who acts: shepherd, Myddvai · What happens: offer, have, take, try, sing · To what, where: bread, Myddvai, 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 (shepherd, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bread	det
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offered	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bread	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tried	cc
16	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tried	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sang	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 sang	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 sang	advmod
21	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sang	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	shepherd	the bread	Myddvai			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal bread=Theme
2	have	past	shepherd	the bread not said here			with Vach	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
3	take	past	Myddvai	bread				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	try	past	Myddvai not said here	bread				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	sing speech: express	past	shepherd not said here		shepherd	then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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