Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 20
So she went back into the house, seized the children and threw them into the Llyn, and the goblins in their blue trousers came and saved their dwarfs and the mother had her own children back and so the great strife ended.
Who acts: woman, goblins, mother, great strife · What happens: go back, seize, throw, come, save, have · To what, where: house, children, Llyn, dwarfs, own children
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, goblins, mother, great strife), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seized | punct |
| 9 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seized | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 threw | cc |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seized | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 Llyn | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Llyn | det |
| 17 | Llyn | Llyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 came | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goblins | det |
| 21 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 came | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 trousers | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 trousers | amod |
| 25 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 goblins | nmod |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 saved | cc |
| 28 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 dwarfs | nmod:poss |
| 30 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 saved | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 had | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mother | det |
| 33 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 had | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | conj |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 children | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 children | amod |
| 37 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 had | obj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 had | advmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 ended | cc |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 ended | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 strife | det |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 strife | amod |
| 43 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ended | nsubj |
| 44 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 had | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | woman | the house | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | woman not said here | the children | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | woman not said here | children = child | the Llyn | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into llyn=Destination | |||
| 4 | come | past | the goblins in goblins's blue trousers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | save | past | the goblins in goblins's blue trousers not said here | goblins's dwarfs | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | the mother | woman's own children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 7 | end | past | the great strife | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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