Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 30
Gold-tree knew the long-ship of her father coming.
Who acts: Gold tree, father · What happens: know, come · To what, where: long ship
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, father), 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 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gold | punct |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ship | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ship | nmod |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 father | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Gold tree | the long ship of well's father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | well's father not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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