Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 60
It was Silver-tree herself that was at the helm, and she steered the ship so well that they were not long at all before they arrived.
Who acts: ship, well, wife · What happens: be, steer, not be, arrive · To what, where: Silver tree, helm, 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 (ship, well, wife), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tree | cop |
| 3 | Silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Silver | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 helm | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 helm | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 helm | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 helm | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 helm | det |
| 11 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 steered | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 steered | nsubj |
| 15 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tree | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ship | det |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 steered | obj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 steered | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 long | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 long | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 steered | advmod |
| 25 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 29 arrived | mark |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 arrived | advmod |
| 27 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 arrived | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 arrived | nsubj |
| 29 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ship | Silver tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | well | Silver tree not said here | the helm | tree rules | |||
| 3 | steer | past | well | the ship | well property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | |||
| 4 | not is | past | wife | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | arrive | past | wife | all property | 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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