Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 26
When he went on a bit, he fell in with the carcass of a sheep beside the road.
Who acts: man · What happens: go, fall in · To what, where: bit
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bit | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 carcass | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 carcass | det |
| 13 | carcass | carcass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sheep | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sheep | det |
| 16 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carcass | nmod |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sheep | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | a bit | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bit=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall in | past | man | with the carcass of a sheep beside the road | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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