Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 128
She gave him her other earring, and then she went home with the heads.
Who acts: beast · What happens: give, go · To what, where: other earring, hero
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), 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 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 earring | nmod:poss |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 earring | amod |
| 6 | earring | earring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 heads | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heads | det |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | beast | beast's other earring | hero | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient earring=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | beast | then | with the heads; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with head=Beneficiary |
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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