Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 138
The herd put his hand in his pocket, and he threw them on the board. "
Who acts: herd · What happens: put, throw · To what, where: hand, pocket, earrings, board
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 (herd), 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 herd | det |
| 2 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pocket | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl | ||
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 threw | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | nsubj |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 threw | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 board | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 board | det |
| 16 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the herd | herd's hand | herd's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 2 | throw | past | herd | earrings = earring | the board | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on board=Destination |
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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