Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 33

This is how it was done; and when Silver-tree came ashore, she began to cry out:

Who acts: This, Silver tree, well · What happens: be, do, come, begin, cry out · To what, where: room

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 (This, Silver tree, well), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 how	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 how	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 how	advcl:relcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
10	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Silver	punct
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 began	advcl
14	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 how	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cry	mark
19	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 cry	compound:prt
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 how	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	This		how property	tree rules
2	do	past · passive		room		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	come	past	Silver tree		ashore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	well			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cry out speech: express	to-infinitive	well not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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