Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 44
He drew the great clean-sweeping sword, and he neared the giant.
Who acts: man · What happens: draw, near · To what, where: great sweeping sword, giant
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 (man), 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 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sword | amod |
| 5 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sweeping | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 clean | punct |
| 7 | sweeping | sweeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sword | amod |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 neared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 neared | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 neared | nsubj |
| 12 | neared | near | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 neared | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | man | the great sweeping sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | near | past | man | the giant | 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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