Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 107
On the morrow they went away, and there was no question at all but that this hero would save the king's daughter.
Who acts: twas, hero · What happens: go away, be, save · To what, where: morrow, question, daughter
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, hero), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morrow | det |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 question | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 morrow | acl:relcl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 question | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 question | det |
| 12 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 question | nmod |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 save | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 save | mark |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 hero | det |
| 18 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 save | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 save | aux |
| 20 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 question | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 save | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | twas = twa | the morrow not said here | away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morrow=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | no question | the morrow | at all | tree rules | |||
| 3 | save | would | this hero | the king's daughter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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