Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 58
It is a drink of thy blood that will quench my thirst this night." "
Who acts: giant, that, my · What happens: be, quench, thirst · To what, where: drink, thirst
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 (giant, that, my), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drink | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drink | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 drink | det |
| 4 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 blood | case |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 blood | nmod:poss |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drink | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 quench | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 quench | aux |
| 10 | quench | quench | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drink | parataxis |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 12 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quench | obj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quench | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 quench | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 quench | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | giant | a drink | of thy blood | tree rules | |||
| 2 | quench | future | that | my thirst | night | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | thirst | my | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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