Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 231
She was sitting at the well's side as he left her, but the king's son was not coming.
Who acts: greyhound, man, son · What happens: sit, leave, not come · To what, where: side, greyhound
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greyhound, man, son), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sitting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sitting | aux |
| 3 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 well | det |
| 6 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 well | case |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sitting | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 left | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | nsubj |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sitting | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 coming | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 coming | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 coming | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 coming | advmod |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sitting | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | greyhound | the well's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | man | greyhound | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not come | past · progressive | the king's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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