Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 84
And the king's daughter was under fear and under trembling, with no one at all to save her.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: be, tremble, save · To what, where: fear, daughter
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 (daughter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fear | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fear | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fear | cop |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 fear | case |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trembling | cc |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 trembling | mark |
| 11 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fear | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trembling | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 save | mark |
| 19 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 one | acl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 save | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king's daughter | fear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | the king's daughter not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | the king's daughter not said here | daughter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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