Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 29
Thereafter many boasted of having slain the Fomori, but the maiden believed them not till at last by a stratagem she recognises Cuchulain.
Who acts: maiden, Fomori, daughter · What happens: boast, have, not believe, till, recognise · To what, where: many, slain, last, Cuchulain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, Fomori, daughter), 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 | Thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 3 boasted | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boasted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | boasted | boast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 boasted | advcl |
| 6 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fomori | det |
| 8 | Fomori | Fomori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 believed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 believed | nsubj |
| 13 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 boasted | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 till | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 believed | advmod |
| 16 | till | till | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 believed | ccomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 till | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 stratagem | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stratagem | det |
| 21 | stratagem | stratagem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 till | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 recognises | nsubj |
| 23 | recognises | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 stratagem | acl:relcl |
| 24 | Cuchulain | Cuchulain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 recognises | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 boasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | participle · passive | many | thereafter property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | slain | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not believe | past | the maiden | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | till | present | Fomori | last | by a stratagem | tree rules | |||
| 5 | recognise | present | daughter | Cuchulain | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cuchulain=Stimulus |
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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