Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 152
Then the princess played and stopped again, and this time the sea-maiden put him all out of the loch, and he called on the falcon and became one and flew on shore.
Who acts: princess, maiden · What happens: play, stop, put, call, become, fly · To what, where: maiden, loch, shore · 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 (princess, 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 | 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stopped | cc |
| 6 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | conj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 stopped | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maiden | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sea | punct |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | acl:relcl |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 played | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 him | det |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 loch | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 loch | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 loch | det |
| 22 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 called | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 called | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 called | nsubj |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 falcon | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 falcon | det |
| 29 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 called | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 became | cc |
| 31 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | conj |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 became | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 flew | cc |
| 34 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 became | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 shore | case |
| 36 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 flew | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the princess | then | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the princess not said here | again | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the princess not said here | maiden | the loch | time | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme out loch=Destination | ||
| 4 | call | past | maiden | on the falcon | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | become | past | the princess not said here | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | fly | past | the princess not said here | shore | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
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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