Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 23
The old man gave the sword to his son; he gave it a shake or two. "
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: give · To what, where: sword, son
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 (old man, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 son | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shake | det |
| 15 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 two | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 shake | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the old man | the sword | man's son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sword=Theme to son=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | past | man | sword | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient shake=Theme |
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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