Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 144
The whale came and cast Trembling on shore again.
Who acts: whale · What happens: come, cast, tremble · To what, where: shore
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), 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 whale | det |
| 2 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cast | cc |
| 5 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 6 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 cast | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Trembling | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 Trembling | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the whale | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cast | past | the whale not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | the whale not said here | shore | again | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=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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