Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 17
His father went to the smithy, and the smith made a doughty sword for him.
Who acts: father, smith · What happens: go, make · To what, where: smithy, doughty sword
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 (father, smith), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 smithy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smithy | det |
| 6 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 smith | det |
| 10 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sword | det |
| 13 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sword | amod |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | son's father | the smithy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the smith | a doughty sword | for father | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sword=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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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