Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 19
The lad grasped it and gave it a shake or two, and it flew into a hundred splinters.
Who acts: lad, sword · What happens: grasp, give, fly · To what, where: sword, hundred splinters
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 (lad, sword), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lad | det |
| 2 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grasped | nsubj |
| 3 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grasped | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gave | cc |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grasped | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shake | det |
| 9 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 two | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 shake | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flew | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grasped | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 splinters | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hundred | det |
| 18 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 splinters | nummod |
| 19 | splinters | splinter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flew | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past | the lad | sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the lad not said here | sword | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient shake=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | sword | into hundred splinters result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into splinter=Result |
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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