Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 160
I was going beside the sea, and I saw an island over in the midst of the loch, and I came there where a boat was with a rope before her, and a rope behind her, and many precious things within her.
Who acts: I, boat · What happens: go, see over, come, be · To what, where: sea, island, midst, many precious things
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boat), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | parataxis |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 saw | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 midst | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 midst | det |
| 16 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 loch | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 loch | det |
| 19 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 midst | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 rope | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 boat | det |
| 27 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rope | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 rope | cop |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 rope | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 rope | det |
| 31 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rope | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 rope | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 rope | det |
| 37 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | parataxis |
| 38 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 rope | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 things | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 things | cc |
| 42 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 things | amod |
| 43 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 things | amod |
| 44 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 came | obl |
| 45 | within | within | ADP | _ | 46 her | case |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 things | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | I | the sea | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beside sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | see over | past | I | a island | the midst of the loch | over property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | come | past | I | many precious things within wife | there | before wife | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location | ||
| 4 | is | past | a boat | with a rope | tree rules |
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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