Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 72
The dog sprung on the crone, and she struck the generous dog with the club of magic; and there he lay.
Who acts: dog, back · What happens: spring, strike, lie · To what, where: dog, generous dog
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 (dog, back), 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 | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dog | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 crone | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crone | det |
| 6 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprung | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 struck | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 struck | nsubj |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 12 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dog | amod |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 club | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 club | det |
| 16 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 magic | case |
| 18 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 club | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lay | cc |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 lay | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 struck | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | participle | the dog not said here | on the crone | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on crone=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | the dog | the generous dog | with the club of magic | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dog=Patient with club=Instrument | |||
| 3 | lie | past | back | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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