Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 18
So he took fair leave of them and travelled towards home, and at last he came to Wayn Her, and there he met three merchants from Tre Rhyn, of his own parish, coming home from Exeter Fair. "
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: take, travel, come, meet · To what, where: fair leave, home, Wayn, last, three merchants, Tre
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leave | amod |
| 5 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 travelled | cc |
| 9 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 travelled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 came | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Wayn | case |
| 19 | Wayn | Wayn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 20 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Wayn | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 met | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 met | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 met | expl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 met | nsubj |
| 25 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 merchants | nummod |
| 27 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 met | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 Tre | case |
| 29 | Tre | Tre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 met | obl |
| 30 | Rhyn | Rhyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Tre | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 parish | punct |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 parish | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 parish | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 parish | amod |
| 35 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 met | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 coming | punct |
| 37 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 met | advcl |
| 38 | home | home | ADV | _ | 37 coming | advmod |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 Fair | case |
| 40 | Exeter | Exeter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Fair | compound |
| 41 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 coming | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ivan | fair leave of wages | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | past | Ivan not said here | home | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards home=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Ivan | Wayn | last | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wayn=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | meet | past | Ivan | three merchants | Tre; there | of Ivan's own parish | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Co-Agent | ||
| 5 | come | gerund | Ivan not said here | Exeter Fair | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fair=Initial_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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