Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 95
The dog kept doing all he might, and the king's daughter was palsied by fear of the noise of the beast!
Who acts: dog, fear, beast · What happens: keep, do, palsy, fear, noise · To what, where: all, daughter, noise
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 (dog, fear, beast), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 doing | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 might | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 palsied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 palsied | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palsied | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 palsied | aux:pass |
| 15 | palsied | palsy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 kept | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 fear | case |
| 17 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palsied | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 noise | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 noise | det |
| 20 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fear | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 beast | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beast | det |
| 23 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 noise | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the dog | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | the dog not said here | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | palsy | past · passive | fear of the noise of the beast | the king's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fear | the noise of the beast | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | noise | the beast | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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