Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 20
He asked his father to go to the smithy and get him another sword in which there should be twice as much weight; and so his father did, and so likewise it happened to the next sword--it broke in two halves.
Who acts: father, it, sword · What happens: ask, go, get, do, happen, break · To what, where: father, smithy, sword, two halves
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, it, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 smithy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 smithy | det |
| 9 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 sword | det |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 be | obl |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 be | expl |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sword | acl |
| 20 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 much | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 weight | amod |
| 23 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 be | nsubj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 did | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 did | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 did | advmod |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 did | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 happened | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 happened | cc |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 likewise | advmod |
| 33 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 35 happened | advmod |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 happened | nsubj |
| 35 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 sword | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sword | det |
| 38 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 sword | amod |
| 39 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 happened | obl |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 broke | punct |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 broke | nsubj |
| 42 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 halves | case |
| 44 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 halves | nummod |
| 45 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 broke | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | father | father's father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | father not said here | the smithy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | father not said here | another sword | father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary sword=Theme | |||
| 4 | do | past | father's father | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | happen | past | it | to the next sword; likewise property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | break | past | sword | two halves | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in half=Location |
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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