Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 38
But about the time when he should drive the cattle homewards, who should he see coming but a great giant with his sword in his hand? "
Who acts: hardship, cattle homewards · What happens: drive, see, come · To what, where: cattle homewards, hand
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, cattle homewards), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 drive | cc |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 time | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drive | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 drive | aux |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 homewards | det |
| 10 | cattle | cattle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 homewards | amod |
| 11 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drive | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 homewards | acl:relcl |
| 17 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 see | xcomp |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 giant | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 giant | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 giant | amod |
| 21 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 homewards | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 sword | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sword | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 giant | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 drive | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | should | hardship | the cattle homewards but a great giant with hardship's sword | hardship's hand | time | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme in hand=Destination | ||
| 2 | see | should | the cattle homewards but a great giant with hardship's sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | gerund | the cattle homewards but a great giant with hardship's sword not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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