Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 129
When they reached the king's house, all were full of smiles, and the General was to marry the king's daughter the next day.
Who acts: earrings, all, General · What happens: reach, be · To what, where: house
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 (earrings, all, General), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 full | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 smiles | case |
| 13 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 marry | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 marry | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 General | det |
| 17 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 marry | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 marry | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 marry | mark |
| 20 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reached | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 marry | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 26 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 day | amod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 marry | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | earrings = earring | the king's house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all | of smiles; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the General | day | marry 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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