Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 94
But there was a spluttering and a splashing between himself and the beast!
Who acts: spluttering · What happens: be, splash
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 (spluttering), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spluttering | det |
| 5 | spluttering | spluttering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 splashing | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 splashing | det |
| 8 | splashing | splash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 spluttering | conj |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 splashing | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beast | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beast | det |
| 13 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 himself | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a spluttering | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | splash | gerund | a spluttering not said here | between spluttering | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between himself=Location |
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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