Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 82
But on the morrow, when the time grew near, the king's daughter and this hero of arms went to give a meeting to the beast, and they reached the black rock, at the upper end of the loch.
Who acts: time, arms · What happens: grow, go, give, reach · To what, where: morrow, meeting, beast, black rock, upper end
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 (time, arms), 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 | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morrow | det |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 grew | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 morrow | conj |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 grew | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morrow | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hero | cc |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 hero | det |
| 18 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morrow | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 arms | case |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hero | nmod |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 give | mark |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 went | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 meeting | det |
| 25 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 beast | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 beast | det |
| 28 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meeting | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 reached | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 reached | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 reached | nsubj |
| 32 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rock | det |
| 34 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 rock | amod |
| 35 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reached | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 end | punct |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 end | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 end | det |
| 39 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 end | amod |
| 40 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reached | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 loch | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 loch | det |
| 43 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 end | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the time | near property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the morrow and the king's daughter and this hero of arms | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | a meeting | the beast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent meeting=Theme to beast=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | arms = arm | the black rock | at the upper end of the loch | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent rock=Theme at end=Asset |
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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