Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 85
Suddenly she sees a doughty handsome youth, riding a black horse, and coming where she was.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: see, ride, come, be · To what, where: doughty handsome youth, black horse
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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 sees | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 5 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 youth | amod |
| 6 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 youth | amod |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 riding | punct |
| 9 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sees | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 riding | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 coming | cc |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 riding | conj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 was | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 was | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 coming | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | daughter | a doughty handsome youth | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ride | gerund | a black horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | be | past | daughter | vn exist-47.1 «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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