Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 9
Next day he took with him bread not so well done, and watched for the maidens.
Who acts: Tis · What happens: take, not do, watch
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 (Tis), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bread | compound |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 done | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 done | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 done | advmod |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watched | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watched | cc |
| 14 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 maidens | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maidens | det |
| 17 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 watched | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Tis | day | with him bread | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not do | participle | Tis not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | watch | past | Tis not said here | for the maidens | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for maiden=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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