Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 65
The whole family was delighted that they had got such a herd.
Who acts: whole family, cattle · What happens: be, get · To what, where: 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 (whole family, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 family | amod |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 got | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 herd | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 herd | det |
| 12 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the whole family | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | cattle | such herd | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herd=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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