Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 34

On this he went onward till he reached a king's house, and he took service to be a herd, and his wages were to be according to the milk of the cattle.

Who acts: hardship, wages · What happens: go, reach, take, be, accord · To what, where: this, house, service, herd

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 (hardship, wages), 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	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 went	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	onward	onward	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
17	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	21 herd	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 herd	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 herd	det
21	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 service	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 milk	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 milk	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wages	nmod:poss
25	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 milk	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 milk	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	32 milk	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 milk	cop
29	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 milk	case
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 according	fixed
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 milk	det
32	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 cattle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cattle	det
35	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 milk	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	hardship		this	onward property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on this=Location
2	reach	past	hardship	a king's house			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	take	past	hardship	service			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	hardship not said here	a herd			tree rules
5	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	hardship's wages			accord the milk; of the cattle	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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