Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 73
But the herd struggled for a hold of the club of magic, and with one blow on the top of the head she was on earth in the twinkling of an eye.
Who acts: herd, crone · What happens: struggle, be, hold · To what, where: earth, club
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, crone), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 struggled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 herd | det |
| 3 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struggled | nsubj |
| 4 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hold | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hold | det |
| 7 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struggled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 club | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 club | det |
| 10 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 magic | case |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 club | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blow | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blow | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 blow | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 blow | nummod |
| 17 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struggled | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blow | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | nmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 earth | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 earth | cop |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 earth | case |
| 27 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 twinkling | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 twinkling | det |
| 30 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 earth | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 eye | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 eye | det |
| 33 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 twinkling | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past | the herd | for a hold of the club of magic; with one blow on the top of the head and earth | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with blow=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | crone | earth | in the twinkling of a eye | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hold | the club of magic | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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