Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 143

But one day, and it was the namesake of the day when his father had promised him to the sea-maiden, they were sauntering by the side of the loch, and lo and behold! she came and took him away to the loch without leave or asking.

Who acts: wedding, father, dresses, daughter · What happens: be, promise, saunter, come, take away, ask · To what, where: namesake, herd, sea maiden

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, father, dresses, daughter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	41 came	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 came	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 namesake	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 namesake	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 namesake	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 namesake	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 namesake	det
9	namesake	namesake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 namesake	nmod
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 promised	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 promised	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 promised	aux
17	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 namesake	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 promised	iobj
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 maiden	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 maiden	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 maiden	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 sea	punct
23	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 promised	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sauntering	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sauntering	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sauntering	aux
27	sauntering	saunter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 maiden	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 side	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 side	det
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sauntering	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 loch	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 loch	det
33	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 side	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lo	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lo	cc
36	lo	lo	INTJ	_	27 sauntering	discourse
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 behold	cc
38	behold	behold	INTJ	_	36 lo	conj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 came	nsubj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 took	cc
43	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 came	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 took	obj
45	away	away	ADV	_	43 took	advmod
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 loch	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 loch	det
48	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 took	obl
49	without	without	ADP	_	50 leave	case
50	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 loch	nmod
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 asking	cc
52	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 leave	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	wedding	the namesake		day		tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	herd's father		herd		to the sea maiden goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent he=Theme to maiden=Goal
3	saunter	past · progressive	dresses = dress				by the side of the loch	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
4	come	past	daughter			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take away	past	daughter not said here	herd			to the loch without leave; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	gerund	daughter not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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