Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 136
Word went for the herd; and he was not long throwing them hither and thither. "
Who acts: Word · What happens: go, throw · To what, where: hail
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 (Word), 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 | Word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 herd | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 herd | det |
| 5 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 throwing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 throwing | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 throwing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 throwing | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 throwing | amod |
| 12 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 throwing | obj |
| 14 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 12 throwing | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thither | cc |
| 16 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 14 hither | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Word | for the herd | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for herd=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · progressive | Word | hail | hither property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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