Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 105
They reached the king's house, and the head was on the General's shoulder.
Who acts: twas, head · What happens: reach, be · To what, where: house, 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 (twas, head), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shoulder | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shoulder | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shoulder | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shoulder | cop |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 General | det |
| 14 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 General | case |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | twas = twa | the king's house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the head | the General's shoulder | 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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