Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 118
On the third day the son of the king of Nyerfoi fought eight hours, and stopped.
Who acts: son · What happens: fight, stop
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fought | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fought | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Nyerfoi | case |
| 11 | Nyerfoi | Nyerfoi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | nmod |
| 12 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hours | nummod |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stopped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stopped | cc |
| 17 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fought | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | the son of the king of Nyerfoi | day; hour | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the son of the king of Nyerfoi not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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