Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 50
At the end of the year, Silver-tree went to the glen, where there was the well, in which there was the trout.
Who acts: Silver tree, well · What happens: go, be · To what, where: end, trout
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, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 8 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Silver | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 glen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 glen | det |
| 14 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trout | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 was | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 trout | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 well | det |
| 20 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trout | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 was | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 was | obl |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 trout | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 trout | det |
| 27 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Silver tree | at the end of the year | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the well | the trout | to the glen | tree rules |
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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