Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 151

Then the princess played again, and stopped till the sea-maiden put him up to the waist.

Who acts: princess · What happens: play, stop, put up · To what, where: 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 (princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 played	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 played	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stopped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stopped	cc
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	conj
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 put	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 put	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 maiden	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 sea	punct
13	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 put	advcl
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stopped	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 waist	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 waist	det
19	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the princess		then; again		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past	the princess not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	put up	infinitive	the princess not said here	maiden		to the waist	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

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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