Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 126
The hero of the black horse came, and if roaring and raving were on the beast on the days that were passed, this day it was horrible.
Who acts: hero, roaring, day · What happens: come, roar, rave, be, pass · To what, where: beast, days
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 (hero, roaring, day), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hero | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beast | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beast | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 roaring | mark |
| 11 | roaring | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 beast | csubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 raving | cc |
| 13 | raving | rave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 roaring | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beast | cop |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 beast | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beast | det |
| 17 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 days | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 days | det |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 beast | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 passed | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 passed | aux:pass |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 days | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 horrible | punct |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 horrible | nsubj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 horrible | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 horrible | cop |
| 29 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the hero of the black horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | roar a condition, not said to happen | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | rave speech: other | gerund | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | roaring | the beast | day | tree rules | |||
| 5 | pass | past · passive | the days | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | is | past | this day | horrible property | 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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