Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 47
When the prince saw Gold-tree alive he made great rejoicings, and he began to kiss her, and kiss her, and kiss her.
Who acts: prince · What happens: see, make, begin, kiss · To what, where: Gold tree, great rejoicings, mother
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | advcl |
| 5 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Gold | punct |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rejoicings | amod |
| 12 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 kiss | mark |
| 18 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kiss | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kiss | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kiss | cc |
| 22 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 kiss | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kiss | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 kiss | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 kiss | cc |
| 26 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 kiss | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kiss | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the prince | Gold tree | alive property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | past | prince | great rejoicings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rejoicing=Product | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | prince | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | kiss | to-infinitive | prince not said here | mother | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | kiss | infinitive | prince not said here | mother | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | kiss | infinitive | prince not said here | mother | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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