Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 51

He went on for a time in this way, but at last the glen grew bare of grass, and the grazing was not so good.

Who acts: herd, last, grazing · What happens: go on, grow, not be · To what, where: way

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, last, grazing), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 grew	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 glen	det
15	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 last	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
17	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 grass	case
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bare	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 good	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 good	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grazing	det
23	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 good	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 good	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 good	advmod
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 good	advmod
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	herd	this way	time		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location
2	grow	past	last			bare property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	past	the grazing			good property	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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