Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 6
So the sea-maiden put up his head (_Who do you mean?
Who acts: sea maiden · What happens: put up, mean · To what, where: head
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 (sea maiden), 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 | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maiden | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 put | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 12 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 put | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up | participle | the sea maiden | Maiden's head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | ||||
| 2 | mean | present · do-support | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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