Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 8
She had swallowed him_)."
Who acts: Mr. · What happens: swallow · To what, where: Maiden
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 (Mr.), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swallowed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swallowed | aux |
| 3 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swallowed | obj |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallowed | punct |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallowed | punct |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallowed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past · perfect | Mr. | Maiden | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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