Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 2
On a certain day of the days, Gold-tree and Silver-tree went to a glen, where there was a well, and in it there was a trout.
Who acts: Gold tree · What happens: go, be · To what, where: glen, trout
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 (Gold tree), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 days | det |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tree | punct |
| 9 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gold | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tree | cc |
| 13 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Silver | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | conj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 glen | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 glen | det |
| 19 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 was | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 glen | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 well | det |
| 25 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 trout | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 trout | cc |
| 28 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 31 was | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 was | nsubj |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 was | expl |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 trout | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 trout | det |
| 33 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Gold tree and Silver tree | a glen | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glen=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a trout | tree rules |
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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