Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 115

They kept at it thus for a long time, and about the mouth of night he cut another head off the beast.

Who acts: Cloopersteich, man · What happens: keep, cut · To what, where: midst, head

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 (Cloopersteich, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obl
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	2 kept	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cut	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cut	cc
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mouth	det
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cut	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mouth	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cut	nsubj
18	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 head	det
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cut	obj
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 beast	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beast	det
23	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cut	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Cloopersteich			midst	time	thus property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at it=Location
2	cut	past	man	another head				about the mouth of night; off the beast	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient off beast=Co-Patient

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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