Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 17
A year after this Silver-tree went to the glen, where there was the well in which there was the trout.
What happens: go · To what, where: glen
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 tree | det |
| 5 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Silver | punct |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 year | nmod |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 glen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 glen | det |
| 11 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 was | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 glen | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 well | det |
| 17 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 was | obl |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 well | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trout | det |
| 23 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the glen | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glen=Initial_Location |
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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