Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 161
The father had her put out then on the sea in a barrel, with provisions in it for seven years.
What happens: put out · To what, where: father, sea
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: 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 put | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 barrel | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 barrel | det |
| 13 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 provisions | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 provisions | case |
| 16 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 provisions | nmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past · perfect · passive | the father | the sea | then; year | in a barrel; with provisions in barrel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on sea=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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