Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 52

So he thought he would go a little further forward in on the giant's land; and he sees a great park of grass.

Who acts: herd · What happens: think, go, see · To what, where: land, great park · Speech: someone speaks here

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	So	so	ADV	_	3 thought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 further	obl
9	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 forward	advmod
10	forward	forward	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	16 land	case
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 land	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 land	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 giant	case
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sees	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sees	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sees	nsubj
20	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 park	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 park	amod
23	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sees	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 grass	case
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 park	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	herd				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	would	herd		the giant's land	forward property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in land=Location
3	see	present	herd	a great park of grass			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer park=Stimulus

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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