Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 86
He was marvellously arrayed and full armed, and his black dog moved after him. "
Who acts: black dog · What happens: array, move · To what, where: 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 (black dog), 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 | 4 arrayed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrayed | aux:pass |
| 3 | marvellously | marvellously | ADV | _ | 4 arrayed | advmod |
| 4 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 armed | cc |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 armed | amod |
| 7 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arrayed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 moved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 moved | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dog | nmod:poss |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dog | amod |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moved | nsubj |
| 13 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrayed | conj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 moved | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrayed | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | array | past · passive | horse | marvellously property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | past | horse's black dog | after horse | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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