Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 117

She gave him one of her earrings, and he leaped on the black horse, and he betook himself to the herding.

Who acts: beast, man · What happens: give, leap, betake · To what, where: one, man

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 (beast, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gave	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 earrings	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 earrings	nmod:poss
7	earrings	earring	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leaped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 leaped	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 leaped	nsubj
11	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 horse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 horse	amod
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 betook	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 betook	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 betook	nsubj
19	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 betook	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 herding	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 herding	det
23	herding	herding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 betook	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	beast	one of beast's earrings	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Theme
2	leap	past	man			on the black horse	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory
3	betake	past	man	man		to the herding	tree rules

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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