Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 8

Everything happened as the sea-maiden said, and he himself got plenty of fish; but when the end of the twenty years was nearing, the old man was growing more and more sorrowful and heavy hearted, while he counted each day as it came.

Who acts: Everything, sea maiden, maiden, end, old man, man · What happens: happen, say, get, near, grow, heart · To what, where: plenty · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Everything, sea maiden, maiden, end), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maiden	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sea	punct
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	11 he	nmod:unmarked
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 fish	case
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plenty	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 nearing	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 nearing	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 nearing	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nearing	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 years	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 years	det
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 years	nummod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 end	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 nearing	aux
27	nearing	near	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 happened	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 growing	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 growing	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 growing	aux
33	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 nearing	conj
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 sorrowful	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sorrowful	cc
36	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 sorrowful	advmod
37	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 growing	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 heavy	cc
39	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sorrowful	conj
40	hearted	heart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 growing	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 counted	punct
42	while	while	SCONJ	_	44 counted	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 counted	nsubj
44	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	conj
45	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	46 day	det
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 counted	obj
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 came	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 came	nsubj
49	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 counted	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	past	Everything			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the sea maiden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	past	maiden	plenty of fish		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus
4	near	past · progressive	the end of the twenty years			tree rules
5	grow	past · progressive	the old man			tree rules
6	heart	participle	the old man not said here			tree rules
7	count	past	man		day	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
8	come	past	end			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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