Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 91
"A champion fled as likely as you, and not long since," said she.
Who acts: champion · What happens: flee, say · 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 (champion), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fled | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 champion | det |
| 3 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 likely | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fled | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 likely | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 long | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 fled | advmod |
| 13 | since | since | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fled | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fled | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee in a quote | past | a champion | likely, long property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | champion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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