Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 26
Silver-tree went home, and begged the king to put the long-ship in order, and said, "I am going to see my dear Gold-tree, for it is so long since I saw her."
Who acts: Silver tree, ship · What happens: go, beg, put, say, see, be · To what, where: king, long ship, order, dear Gold tree, well · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Silver tree, ship), 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 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Silver | punct |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 begged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 begged | cc |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 begged | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 put | mark |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 begged | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ship | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ship | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 order | case |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 going | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 going | xcomp |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 tree | nmod:poss |
| 30 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tree | amod |
| 31 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tree | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Gold | punct |
| 33 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 see | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 long | punct |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 long | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 long | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 long | cop |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 long | advmod |
| 39 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 see | advmod |
| 40 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 42 saw | mark |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 saw | nsubj |
| 42 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 long | advcl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 saw | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Silver tree | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Silver tree not said here | the king | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | Silver tree not said here | the long ship | order | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Theme in order=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Silver tree not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Silver tree = tree | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | Silver tree = tree not said here | my dear Gold tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | ship | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | see in a quote | past | Silver tree = tree | well | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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