Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 144
The king's daughter was now mournful, tearful, blind-sorrowful for her married man; she was always with her eye on the loch.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: be · To what, where: loch
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mournful | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mournful | cop |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 mournful | advmod |
| 7 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tearful | punct |
| 9 | tearful | tearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mournful | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sorrowful | punct |
| 11 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sorrowful | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 blind | punct |
| 13 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mournful | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 man | nmod:poss |
| 16 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sorrowful | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 eye | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 eye | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 eye | cop |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 eye | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 eye | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eye | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mournful | appos |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 loch | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 loch | det |
| 27 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eye | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mournful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king's daughter | now | mournful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the king's daughter not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | the king's daughter not said here | for daughter's married man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | daughter | the loch | with daughter's eye; always property | tree rules |
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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