Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 63
Then he called on the dog, and with one spring the black dog caught the giant by the neck, and swiftly the herd struck off his head.
Who acts: _, black dog, herd · What happens: call, catch, strike off · To what, where: giant, head · 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 (_, black dog, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 caught | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 caught | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 spring | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 spring | nummod |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dog | amod |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | nsubj |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 giant | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 caught | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 neck | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 neck | det |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 struck | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 struck | cc |
| 23 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 26 struck | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 herd | det |
| 25 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 struck | nsubj |
| 26 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 struck | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 struck | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | _ | then | on the dog | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | catch | past | the black dog | the giant | spring | by the neck | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | ||
| 3 | strike off | past | the herd | herd's head | swiftly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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