Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 159

He thought he would try to leap the strait with the black horse, and even so he did.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: think, try, leap, do · To what, where: strait · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 try	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leap	mark
7	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 strait	det
9	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leap	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 horse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 horse	amod
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strait	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 did	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 did	cc
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 did	advmod
17	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 did	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	maiden			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	try	would	maiden			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	leap not said to happen	to-infinitive	maiden not said here	the strait	with the black horse	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme strait=Trajectory
4	do	past	maiden			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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