Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 170
Twas then the sea-maiden appeared, and she said, "Break not the egg, and you shall get all you ask." "
Who acts: Twas, princess, you · What happens: appear, say, not break, get, ask · To what, where: egg · 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 (Twas, princess, you), 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maiden | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sea | punct |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Break | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Break | punct |
| 14 | Break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 Break | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 egg | det |
| 17 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Break | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 appeared | ccomp |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 ask | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 ask | nsubj |
| 25 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Twas | then | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not break in a quote | infinitive | the egg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | shall | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | all property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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