Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 50
He got good feeding this night, meat and drink without stint, and the king was hugely pleased that he had caught such a herd.
Who acts: herd, king · What happens: get, be, catch · To what, where: good feeding, herd
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, king), 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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feeding | amod |
| 4 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 meat | punct |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 night | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drink | cc |
| 10 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meat | conj |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 stint | case |
| 12 | stint | stint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meat | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pleased | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pleased | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pleased | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pleased | cop |
| 18 | hugely | hugely | ADV | _ | 19 pleased | advmod |
| 19 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 caught | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 caught | aux |
| 23 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 pleased | advcl |
| 24 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 herd | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 herd | det |
| 26 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caught | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | herd | good feeding | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeding=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | the king | hugely, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | past · perfect · passive | herd | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary herd=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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