Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 43
At the fall of night the prince came home from the hunting-hill, looking very downcast.
Who acts: prince · What happens: come, look · To what, where: fall, downcast
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 (prince), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 fall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fall | det |
| 3 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 hill | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hill | det |
| 12 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hill | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunting | punct |
| 14 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looking | punct |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 downcast | advmod |
| 18 | downcast | downcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the prince | the fall of night | from the hunting hill; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | the prince not said here | downcast | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme downcast=Attribute |
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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