Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 2

On a day of days, while he was fishing, there rose a sea-maiden at the side of his boat, and she asked him, "Are you getting much fish?"

Who acts: fisherman, fish · What happens: fish, rise, ask, get · To what, where: fisherman, much fish · 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 (fisherman, fish), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rose	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 days	case
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 day	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fishing	punct
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 fishing	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fishing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fishing	aux
10	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 day	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 rose	expl
13	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 maiden	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 maiden	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sea	punct
17	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rose	ccomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 side	det
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 maiden	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 boat	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 boat	nmod:poss
23	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 side	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asked	nsubj
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rose	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asked	iobj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 getting	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 getting	punct
31	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 getting	aux
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 getting	nsubj
33	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 asked	ccomp
34	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fish	amod
35	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 getting	obj
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 getting	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	fish	past · progressive	fisherman					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rise	past				there	day	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	fish		fisherman			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get in a quote	present · progressive	fisherman	much fish				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus

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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