Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 102
She gave him a gold ring, and went home with the head on her shoulder, and the herd betook himself to the cows.
Who acts: beast, herd · What happens: give, go, betake · To what, where: gold ring, luck, shoulder
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, herd), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ring | compound |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 betook | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 betook | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 herd | det |
| 20 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 betook | nsubj |
| 21 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 betook | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 cows | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cows | det |
| 25 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 betook | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | beast | a gold ring | luck | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | beast not said here | beast's shoulder | with the head; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with head=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | betake | past | the herd | luck | to the cows | 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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