Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 35
He went away with the cattle, and the grazing was but bare.
Who acts: hardship, grazing · What happens: go away, be
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, grazing), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cattle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cattle | det |
| 6 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bare | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bare | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grazing | det |
| 10 | grazing | grazing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bare | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bare | cop |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 bare | cc |
| 13 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | hardship | with the cattle; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with cattle=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the grazing | bare property | 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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