Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 68
All hail and good luck to thee, fisher's son; 'tis I myself am pleased to see thee; great is the honour for this kingdom, for thy like to be come into it--thy coming in is fame for this little bothy; go in first; honour to the gentles; go on, and take breath."
Who acts: tis, coming · What happens: be, see, come, come in, go in, go on · To what, where: thee, great honour, tis, fame, honour, breath
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 (tis, coming), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 hail | det |
| 2 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 luck | cc |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 luck | amod |
| 5 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hail | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 thee | case |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 luck | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 9 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 fisher | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hail | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 pleased | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 tis | punct |
| 14 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pleased | nsubj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 pleased | nsubj |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 I | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 pleased | cop |
| 18 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hail | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 pleased | xcomp |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 honour | punct |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 honour | amod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 honour | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 honour | det |
| 26 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hail | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 kingdom | det |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 honour | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 come | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 come | mark |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 like | nmod:poss |
| 33 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 36 come | discourse |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 come | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 come | aux:pass |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 honour | acl |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 come | obl |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 fame | punct |
| 40 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 fame | nmod:poss |
| 41 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 fame | csubj |
| 42 | in | in | ADV | _ | 41 coming | advmod |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 fame | cop |
| 44 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 honour | conj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 bothy | case |
| 46 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 bothy | det |
| 47 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 bothy | amod |
| 48 | bothy | bothy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fame | nmod |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 go | punct |
| 50 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 hail | parataxis |
| 51 | in | in | ADV | _ | 50 go | advmod |
| 52 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 50 go | advmod |
| 53 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 54 honour | punct |
| 54 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 go | obl |
| 55 | to | to | ADP | _ | 57 gentles | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 gentles | det |
| 57 | gentles | gentle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 honour | nmod |
| 58 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 59 go | punct |
| 59 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 50 go | conj |
| 60 | on | on | ADV | _ | 59 go | advmod |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 take | punct |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 take | cc |
| 63 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 50 go | conj |
| 64 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 take | obj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hail | punct |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tis | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | tis not said here | thee | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the great honour and thy fame | for this kingdom | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive · passive | tis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: into it=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | come in | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | coming | thy fame | for this little bothy | tree rules | |||
| 7 | go in | infinitive | honour to the gentles | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | go on | infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | take | infinitive | breath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
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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