Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 27
And there were a great black dog, a falcon, and an otter, and they were quarrelling over the spoil.
Who acts: great black dog, dog · What happens: be, quarrell · To what, where: spoil
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 (great black dog, dog), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 were | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dog | amod |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dog | amod |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 were | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 falcon | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 falcon | det |
| 10 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dog | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 otter | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 otter | cc |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 otter | det |
| 14 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dog | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quarrelling | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 quarrelling | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 quarrelling | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 quarrelling | aux |
| 19 | quarrelling | quarrell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 were | advcl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 spoil | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spoil | det |
| 22 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quarrelling | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great black dog and a falcon and a otter | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | quarrell | past · progressive | dog | the spoil | tree rules |
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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