Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 14
Now it happened about this time that the son of a great king had come from abroad to ask Gold-tree for marrying.
Who acts: it, son · What happens: happen, come, ask, marry · To what, where: Gold tree
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, son), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 king | amod |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 abroad | case |
| 17 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 ask | mark |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | advcl |
| 20 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Gold | punct |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | obj |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 marrying | mark |
| 24 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 ask | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now; time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | the son of a great king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from abroad=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the son of a great king not said here | Gold tree | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | marry | gerund | the son of a great king not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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