Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 155
Then the whale went out, turned over once on the broad of his back, and showed the spot for a moment only.
Who acts: whale · What happens: go out, turn over, show · To what, where: broad, spot
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 turned | compound:prt |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 turned | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 broad | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 broad | det |
| 12 | broad | broad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broad | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 showed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 showed | cc |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 moment | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 moment | det |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obl |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 moment | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the whale | then | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn over | past | the whale not said here | the broad of cowboy's back | once property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | show | past | the whale not said here | the spot | moment | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spot=Recipient |
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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