Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 62
At length and at last it seemed as if the giant would get the victory over the herd.
Who acts: it, giant · What happens: seem, get · To what, where: length, victory, 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 (it, giant), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 last | cc |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 length | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seemed | nsubj |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seemed | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 victory | det |
| 15 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 herd | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 herd | det |
| 18 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | length | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | get a condition, not said to happen | would | the giant | the victory | the herd | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer victory=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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