Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 106
But here was rejoicing, that she should come home alive and whole, and this great captain with the beast's head full of blood in his hand.
Who acts: beast · What happens: rejoice, come · To what, where: great captain
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 rejoicing | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rejoicing | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rejoicing | aux |
| 4 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rejoicing | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 come | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 whole | cc |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 alive | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 captain | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 captain | cc |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 captain | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 captain | amod |
| 18 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rejoicing | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beast | det |
| 21 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 beast | case |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 captain | nmod |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 head | amod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 blood | case |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 full | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 captain | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rejoicing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past · progressive | this great captain with the beast's head in General's hand | here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come | should | beast | alive, home 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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