Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 135

When she was on the sand she said to the cowboy: "When you go home in the evening with the cows, tell the master that my sister Fair pushed me into the sea yesterday; that a whale swallowed me, and then threw me out, but will come again and swallow me with the coming of the next tide; then he'll go out with the tide, and come again with to-morrow's tide, and throw me again on the strand.

Who acts: whale, sand, cowboy, sister, morrow · What happens: be, say, go, tell, push, swallow · To what, where: sand, cowboy, master, sea, strand · 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 (whale, sand, cowboy, sister), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sand	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sand	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sand	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 sand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sand	det
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 cowboy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cowboy	det
11	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
14	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 go	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 evening	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 evening	det
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 cows	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cows	det
23	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 master	det
27	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 pushed	obj
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 sister	nmod:poss
30	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pushed	nsubj
31	Fair	Fair	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sister	appos
32	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 master	acl:relcl
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 pushed	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 sea	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sea	det
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pushed	obl
37	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pushed	obl:unmarked
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 swallowed	punct
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 whale	det
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 whale	det
41	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 swallowed	nsubj
42	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 swallowed	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 threw	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 threw	cc
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 threw	advmod
47	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 swallowed	conj
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 threw	obj
49	out	out	ADP	_	47 threw	compound:prt
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 come	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 come	cc
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 come	aux
53	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
54	again	again	ADV	_	53 come	advmod
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 swallow	cc
56	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 come	conj
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 swallow	obj
58	with	with	SCONJ	_	60 coming	mark
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 coming	det
60	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 swallow	advcl
61	of	of	ADP	_	64 tide	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 tide	det
63	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 tide	amod
64	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 coming	obl
65	;	;	PUNCT	_	69 go	punct
66	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	69 go	advmod
67	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 go	nsubj
68	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 go	aux
69	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
70	out	out	ADV	_	69 go	advmod
71	with	with	ADP	_	73 tide	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 tide	det
73	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 go	obl
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 come	punct
75	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 come	cc
76	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 go	parataxis
77	again	again	ADV	_	76 come	advmod
78	with	with	ADP	_	83 tide	case
79	to	to	ADP	_	83 tide	case
80	-	-	PUNCT	_	79 to	punct
81	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 tide	nmod:poss
82	's	's	PART	_	81 morrow	case
83	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 come	obl
84	,	,	PUNCT	_	86 throw	punct
85	and	and	CCONJ	_	86 throw	cc
86	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	76 come	conj
87	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	86 throw	obj
88	again	again	ADV	_	86 throw	advmod
89	on	on	ADP	_	91 strand	case
90	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	91 strand	det
91	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 throw	obl
92	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	whale			the sand			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the sand		the cowboy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cowboy=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present	the cowboy = cowboy				evening	with the cows; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with cow=Beneficiary
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the cowboy = cowboy not said here	the master					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
5	push in a quote	past	my sister	the master		the sea	yesterday		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme i=Destination
6	swallow in a quote	past	that whale	the sand = sand					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
7	throw out in a quote	past	that whale not said here	the sand = sand			then		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
8	come in a quote	future	the sand not said here				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	swallow in a quote	infinitive	the sand not said here	the sand = sand					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
10	come in a quote	gerund	the sand not said here					of the next tide	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of tide=Initial_Location
11	go out in a quote	future	sand				then	with the tide; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tide=Co-Agent
12	come in a quote	infinitive					again	with morrow's tide	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	throw in a quote	infinitive		the sand = sand		the strand	again		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme on strand=Destination
14	tide in a quote		morrow						nom tide «event intransitive»: poss=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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