Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 134

It happened, when the two sisters were walking by the seashore, that a little cowboy was down by the water minding cattle, and saw Fair push Trembling into the sea; and next day, when the tide came in, he saw the whale swim up and throw her out on the sand.

Who acts: It, two sisters, little cowboy, Fair push, tide, whale · What happens: happen, walk, be, mind, see, tremble · To what, where: cattle, Fair push, sea, sister, sand · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (It, two sisters, little cowboy, Fair push), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walking	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 walking	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sisters	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sisters	nummod
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walking	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 walking	aux
9	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 happened	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 seashore	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 seashore	det
12	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 down	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 down	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cowboy	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cowboy	amod
17	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 down	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 down	cop
19	down	down	ADV	_	9 walking	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 down	obl
23	minding	mind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 walking	advcl
24	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 minding	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	parataxis
28	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 push	amod
29	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
30	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 push	acl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 sea	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sea	det
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Trembling	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 came	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 came	cc
36	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 day	amod
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 came	obl:unmarked
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 came	punct
39	when	when	SCONJ	_	42 came	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tide	det
41	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 came	nsubj
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	parataxis
43	in	in	ADV	_	42 came	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 saw	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 saw	nsubj
46	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 came	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 whale	det
48	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 swim	nsubj
49	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 saw	ccomp
50	up	up	ADP	_	49 swim	compound:prt
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 throw	cc
52	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 swim	conj
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 throw	obj
54	out	out	ADP	_	52 throw	compound:prt
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 sand	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 sand	det
57	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 throw	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past · progressive	the two sisters				by the seashore	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by seashore=Trajectory
3	is	past	a little cowboy				by the water; down property	tree rules
4	mind	gerund	the two sisters not said here	cattle				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme
5	see	past		Fair push				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer push=Stimulus
6	tremble	gerund	Fair push not said here		the sea			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come in	past	the tide			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	past	tide					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	swim up	present	the whale					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	throw out	infinitive	the whale not said here	sister	the sand			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme on sand=Destination

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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