Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 147

She took her harp to the sea-shore, and sat and played; and the sea-maiden came up to listen, for sea-maidens are fonder of music than all other creatures.

Who acts: daughter, sea maiden · What happens: take, sit, play, come up, listen, be · To what, where: harp, sea shore

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, sea maiden), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 harp	nmod:poss
4	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shore	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shore	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sea	punct
9	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 played	cc
14	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 maiden	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 maiden	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 sea	punct
20	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
22	up	up	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 listen	mark
24	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fonder	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 maidens	case
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 maidens	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 sea	punct
29	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fonder	obl
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fonder	cop
31	fonder	fond	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 came	parataxis
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 music	case
33	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fonder	obl
34	than	than	ADP	_	37 creatures	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 creatures	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 creatures	amod
37	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fonder	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	daughter	daughter's harp	the sea shore		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent harp=Theme to shore=Destination
2	sit	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	past					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come up	past	the sea maiden				tree rules
5	listen	to-infinitive	the sea maiden not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	is	present				for sea maidens; of music; than all other creatures; fond 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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