Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 113
But they were not long there when they saw the beast steaming in the midst of the loch.
Who acts: gold, beast · What happens: be, see, steam · To what, where: beast
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 (gold, 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 | _ | 6 there | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beast | det |
| 11 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | steaming | steam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 beast | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 midst | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 midst | det |
| 15 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steaming | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 loch | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 loch | det |
| 18 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 midst | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gold | long, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | gold | the beast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | steam | gerund | the beast not said here | in the midst of the loch | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in midst=Instrument |
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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