Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 37
On the next day he went on further with them; and at last he came to a place exceedingly grassy, in a green glen, of which he never saw the like.
Who acts: hardship · What happens: go on, come, not see · To what, where: last, like
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), 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 | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | further | further | ADV | _ | 10 them | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 came | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 21 grassy | advmod |
| 21 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 place | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 glen | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 glen | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 glen | det |
| 25 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 glen | amod |
| 26 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 saw | punct |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 saw | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 saw | advmod |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 like | det |
| 34 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 saw | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | hardship | day | with cattle | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | hardship | last | to a place; in a green glen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | not see | past | hardship | the like | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer like=Stimulus |
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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