Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 244

He saw the shadow of the maiden in the well, and he looked up to the tree, and he sees the finest woman he ever saw.

Who acts: shoemaker · What happens: see, look up, shadow · To what, where: shadow, finest woman, maiden

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 (shoemaker), 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	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shadow	det
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 maiden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shadow	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maiden	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 looked	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sees	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sees	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sees	nsubj
22	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
24	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sees	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 saw	advmod
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 woman	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	shoemaker	the shadow of the maiden in the well			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus
2	look up	past	shoemaker			to the tree	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tree=Theme
3	see	present	shoemaker	the finest woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	see	past	shoemaker	the finest woman not said here	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
5	shadow			the maiden in the well			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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