Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 161

He saw the hind, and he let the black dog after her, but when he was on one side of the island, the hind would be on the other side. "

Who acts: horse, hind · What happens: see, let, be · To what, where: hind, black dog, one side, other side

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 (horse, hind), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hind	det
4	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	nsubj
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dog	amod
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 side	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 side	cc
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 side	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 side	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 side	cop
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 side	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 side	nummod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 island	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 island	det
24	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 side	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 side	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hind	det
27	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 side	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 side	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 side	cop
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 side	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 side	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 side	amod
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 island	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	horse	the hind				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hind=Stimulus
2	let	past	horse	the black dog		after egg		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
3	is	past	horse		one side		of the island and the other side	tree rules
4	is	would	the hind		the other side			tree rules

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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