Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 49
And when the cattle were milked this night there _was_ milk.
What happens: milk, be · To what, where: cattle, milk
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 milked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 milked | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cattle | det |
| 4 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 milked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 milked | aux:pass |
| 6 | milked | milk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 milked | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 night | advmod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 milk | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 milk | cop |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 milk | punct |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 milked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 milked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | milk | past · passive | the cattle | night | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | milk | 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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