Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 67
When he reached the door, a little flattering carlin met him standing in the door. "
Who acts: herd, little flattering carlin · What happens: reach, meet, stand · To what, where: door, 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 (herd, little flattering carlin), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 met | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 carlin | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 carlin | amod |
| 9 | flattering | flattering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 carlin | amod |
| 10 | carlin | carlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | obj |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 met | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | herd | the door | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | a little flattering carlin | herd | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a little flattering carlin not said here | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in door=Location |
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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