Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 99
He reached the side of Loch-Ness and made his habitation there.
Who acts: colour · What happens: reach, make · To what, where: side, habitation
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colour), 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 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Loch | case |
| 6 | Loch | Loch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ness | punct |
| 8 | Ness | Ness | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Loch | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 habitation | nmod:poss |
| 12 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 made | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | colour | the side of Loch and Ness | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | colour not said here | colour's habitation | there | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset habitation=Product |
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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