Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 18
Cona’n also refused, and so did Caelte mac Rona’n and mac Lugac, for there was no man there but was terrified by the sight of that mighty and valiant harridan.
Who acts: Cona’n, Caelte · What happens: refuse, do, be, sight · To what, where: man, mighty harridan
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cona’n, Caelte), 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 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 refused | advmod |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 did | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 did | advmod |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 refused | conj |
| 8 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 man | nsubj |
| 9 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Caelte | flat |
| 10 | Rona’n | Rona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Caelte | flat |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mac | cc |
| 12 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Caelte | conj |
| 13 | Lugac | Lugac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mac | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 man | cop |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | ccomp |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 man | advmod |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 terrified | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 terrified | cop |
| 23 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 refused | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sight | det |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 terrified | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 harridan | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 harridan | det |
| 29 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 harridan | amod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 valiant | cc |
| 31 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mighty | conj |
| 32 | harridan | harridan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sight | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | Cona’n | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | past | Cona’n not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Caelte and mac | no man | there | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | Cona’n not said here | by the sight of that mighty harridan; terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sight | that mighty harridan | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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