Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 108

They reached the same place, and they were not long there when the fearful Laidly Beast stirred in the midst of the loch, and the hero slunk away as he did on yesterday, but it was not long after this when the man of the black horse came, with another dress on.

Who acts: twas, fearful Laidly Beast, hero, place, man · What happens: reach, be, stir, slink away, do, not be · To what, where: same place, midst

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, fearful Laidly Beast, hero, place), 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	5 place	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 there	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 there	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 there	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 there	advmod
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 reached	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 stirred	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Beast	det
15	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Beast	amod
16	Laidly	Laidly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Beast	amod
17	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 stirred	nsubj
18	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 there	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 midst	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 midst	det
21	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stirred	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 loch	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 loch	det
24	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 midst	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 slunk	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 slunk	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hero	det
28	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 slunk	nsubj
29	slunk	slink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reached	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 slunk	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 did	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 did	nsubj
33	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 slunk	advcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 yesterday	case
35	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 did	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 long	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 long	cc
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 long	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 long	cop
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 long	advmod
41	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 reached	advmod
42	after	after	ADP	_	43 this	case
43	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 long	obl
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 came	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 man	det
46	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 came	nsubj
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 horse	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 horse	det
49	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 horse	amod
50	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 man	nmod
51	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reached	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 dress	punct
53	with	with	ADP	_	55 dress	case
54	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	55 dress	det
55	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 came	obl
56	on	on	ADP	_	51 came	compound:prt
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	twas = twa	the same place				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	is	past	twas = twa				long, there property	tree rules
3	stir	past	the fearful Laidly Beast		the midst of the loch			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location
4	slink away	past	the hero				away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	past	hero			yesterday		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is	past	place			after this	long property	tree rules
7	come on	past	the man of the black horse				with another dress	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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