Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 141
The herd put on the giant's golden dress, and they married that same day.
Who acts: herd · What happens: put, marry · To what, where: herd, golden dress
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 | 13 married | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 herd | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 dress | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dress | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 giant | case |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dress | amod |
| 9 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 married | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 married | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 married | nsubj |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 married | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the herd not said here | the giant's golden dress | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | the herd | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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