Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 166
No sooner said he this than the falcon was after the hoodie, and she was not long putting her to earth; and as the hoodie fell on the bank of the loch, out of her jumps the trout. "
Who acts: falcon, princess · What happens: say, be, not be, put, fall, jump · To what, where: this, princess, bank, trout · 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 (falcon, princess), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 this | nsubj |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | obj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 hoodie | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 falcon | det |
| 8 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hoodie | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hoodie | cop |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 hoodie | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hoodie | det |
| 12 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 long | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 long | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 long | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | parataxis |
| 19 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 long | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 putting | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 earth | case |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 putting | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 fell | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fell | cc |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 hoodie | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hoodie | det |
| 27 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 bank | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bank | det |
| 31 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 loch | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 loch | det |
| 34 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bank | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 jumps | punct |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 jumps | mark |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 jumps | obl |
| 39 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 fell | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 trout | det |
| 41 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 jumps | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 jumps | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 jumps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | this | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the falcon | than the hoodie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | princess | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | gerund | princess not said here | princess | to earth | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | |||
| 5 | fall | past | the bank of the loch | as the hoodie | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bank=Location | ||||
| 6 | jump | present | the trout | of princess | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent trout=Theme of she=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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