Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 77

He followed herding in this way for a time; but one night after he came home, instead of getting "All hail" and "Good luck" from the dairymaid, all were at crying and woe.

Who acts: thing, all · What happens: follow, herd, come, get, cry · To what, where: way, hail, dairymaid

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 (thing, all), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herding	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 followed	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 herding	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 herding	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 night	nummod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl:unmarked
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	parataxis
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 getting	punct
19	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 getting	mark
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 instead	fixed
21	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 hail	punct
23	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 hail	det
24	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 getting	obj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 hail	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 luck	cc
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 luck	punct
28	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 luck	amod
29	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hail	conj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 luck	punct
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 dairymaid	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dairymaid	det
33	dairymaid	dairymaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 getting	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 crying	punct
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 crying	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 crying	aux
37	at	at	SCONJ	_	38 crying	mark
38	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 getting	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 woe	cc
40	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 crying	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	thing					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	herd	gerund	thing not said here		this way	time		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	thing			night	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	gerund	thing not said here	all hail and Good luck	the dairymaid			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hail=Theme from dairymaid=Source
5	cry speech: express	past · progressive	all					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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