Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 48
At the mouth of night he took himself to the king's house, but he took not a thing from the giant's house.
Who acts: herd · What happens: take, not take · To what, where: herd, mouth, thing, house
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 (herd), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 mouth | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mouth | det |
| 3 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mouth | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 took | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 giant | det |
| 23 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 giant | case |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | herd | herd | the mouth of night | to the king's house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to house=Destination | ||
| 2 | not take | past | herd | a thing | the giant's house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from house=Initial_Location |
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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