Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 153

He was not long down when the whale came and threw Trembling upon the beach as the two days before.

Who acts: whale · What happens: not long down, come, throw, tremble · To what, where: cowboy, beach

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 long	compound:prt
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whale	det
8	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 threw	cc
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
12	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 threw	xcomp
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 beach	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beach	det
15	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Trembling	obl
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 days	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 days	det
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 days	nummod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Trembling	obl
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 days	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not long down	past · passive		cowboy			tree rules
2	come	past	the whale				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw	past	the whale not said here				tree rules
4	tremble	gerund	the whale not said here		the beach	day	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon beach=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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