Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 114

At once he went to meet the beast, but _there_ was Cloopersteich and Claperstich, spluttering, splashing, raving, and roaring on the beast!

Who acts: man · What happens: go, meet, be, splutter, splash, rave · To what, where: beast, Cloopersteich

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 (man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 once	case
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 went	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 meet	mark
6	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beast	det
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meet	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 there	cc
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	parataxis
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 Cloopersteich	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Cloopersteich	cop
15	Cloopersteich	Cloopersteich	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 there	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Claperstich	cc
17	Claperstich	Claperstich	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Cloopersteich	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spluttering	punct
19	spluttering	splutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 there	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 splashing	punct
21	splashing	splash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 spluttering	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 raving	punct
23	raving	rave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 splashing	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 roaring	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 roaring	cc
26	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 spluttering	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 beast	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 beast	det
29	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 roaring	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	man			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	meet	to-infinitive	man not said here	the beast		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Co-Agent
3	is a	past		Cloopersteich and Claperstich		tree rules
4	splutter	gerund	man not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	splash	gerund	man not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	rave speech: other	gerund	man not said here			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	roar	gerund	man not said here		the beast	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beast=Location

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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