Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 198
I went and got the boat with which I came, and she was no way lightened, and took the woman and the child over on dry land; and I returned home."
Who acts: I, woman · What happens: go, get, come, be, lighten, take over · To what, where: boat, way, woman, dry land
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, woman), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 came | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boat | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 way | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 way | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | cop |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 17 | lightened | lighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 way | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 child | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 woman | conj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 took | compound:prt |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 land | case |
| 28 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 land | amod |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 returned | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 returned | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 returned | nsubj |
| 33 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 34 | home | home | ADV | _ | 33 returned | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | I not said here | the boat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | I | with the boat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | woman | no way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lighten | participle | no way not said here | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | take over | past | I not said here | the woman and the child | dry land | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | |||
| 7 | return | past | I | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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