Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 158
Now, there was no way of getting to this island, for the sea-maiden would sink each boat and raft that would go on the loch.
Who acts: way, sea maiden, raft · What happens: be, get, sink, go · To what, where: boat, loch
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 (way, sea maiden, raft), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 getting | mark |
| 8 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 way | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 getting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sink | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 sink | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 maiden | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sea | punct |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sink | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sink | aux |
| 19 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 getting | advcl |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 boat | det |
| 21 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sink | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 raft | cc |
| 23 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 boat | conj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 raft | acl:relcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 loch | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 loch | det |
| 29 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no way | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | gerund | no way not said here | to this island result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result | ||||
| 3 | sink | would | the sea maiden | each boat and raft | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | would | raft | the loch | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on loch=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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