Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 64

He went home very tired this night, but it's a wonder if the king's cattle had not milk.

Who acts: herd, giant, cattle · What happens: go, be, have · To what, where: wonder, milk

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, giant, cattle), 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	home	home	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wonder	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 wonder	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wonder	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wonder	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wonder	det
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	parataxis
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cattle	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 king	case
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wonder	advcl
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 milk	advmod
21	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	herd		night	home, tired property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	giant	a wonder			tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the king's cattle	milk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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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