Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 130
The wedding was going on, and every one about the castle longing till the priest should come.
Who acts: wedding, one · What happens: go on, come
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 (wedding, one), 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 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 going | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 longing | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 longing | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 longing | compound |
| 13 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 priest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 priest | det |
| 16 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 longing | nmod |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past · progressive | the wedding | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | should | every one about the castle longing till the priest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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