Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 172
In the wink of an eye she was by his side.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be · To what, where: wink
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 (wife), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wink | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wink | det |
| 3 | wink | wink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eye | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 eye | det |
| 6 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wink | nmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 side | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 side | cop |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 side | nmod:poss |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 side | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | the wink of a eye | by otter's 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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