Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 155

Her man was mournful, tearful, wandering down and up about the banks of the loch, by day and night.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, wonder

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 (man), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 man	nmod:poss
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mournful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mournful	cop
4	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tearful	punct
6	tearful	tearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mournful	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wandering	punct
8	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mournful	advcl
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 wandering	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 up	cc
11	up	up	ADV	_	9 down	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 banks	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 banks	det
14	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wandering	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 loch	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 loch	det
17	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 banks	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 day	case
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loch	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 night	cc
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loch	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mournful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Sorrowful's man	mournful property	tree rules
2	be		Sorrowful's man not said here		tree rules
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Sorrowful's man not said here	about the banks of the loch and day and night; down property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about bank=Stimulus

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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