Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 145

An old soothsayer met her, and she told how it had befallen her married mate.

Who acts: old soothsayer, daughter · What happens: meet, tell, befall · To what, where: daughter, soothsayer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old soothsayer, 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 soothsayer	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soothsayer	amod
3	soothsayer	soothsayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 befallen	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 befallen	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 befallen	aux
13	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	ccomp
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mate	nmod:poss
15	married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mate	amod
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 befallen	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	meet	past	a old soothsayer	daughter	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	daughter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	befall	past · perfect · passive		soothsayer	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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