Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 57

And when he opened the castle door he sees the handsomest maiden he ever cast eye upon.

Who acts: son · What happens: open, see, cast · To what, where: castle door, handsomest maiden, eye

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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 sees	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 opened	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sees	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	compound
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sees	nsubj
9	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maiden	det
11	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 maiden	amod
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sees	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cast	nsubj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 cast	advmod
15	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 maiden	acl:relcl
16	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cast	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 cast	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sees	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	open	past	son	the castle door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	see	present	son	the handsomest maiden		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus
3	cast	past	son	eye	ever	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Product

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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