Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 93
And to meet the beast he went with his sword and his dog.
Who acts: carlin · What happens: meet, go · To what, where: beast
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 (carlin), 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 | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 meet | mark |
| 3 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beast | det |
| 5 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meet | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sword | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dog | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dog | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sword | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | to-infinitive | carlin not said here | the beast | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | carlin | with carlin's sword and carlin's dog | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with sword=Beneficiary |
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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