Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 160
The black horse leaped the strait.
Who acts: black horse · What happens: leap · To what, where: strait
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 (black horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 horse | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 strait | det |
| 6 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaped | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 horse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the black horse not said here | the strait | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme strait=Trajectory |
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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