Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 14

And the soothsayer went forth out of the house and he was not long outside when he returned.

Who acts: soothsayer, Malcolm · What happens: go, not be, return · To what, where: house

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soothsayer, Malcolm), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soothsayer	det
3	soothsayer	soothsayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 long	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 long	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 long	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 went	advmod
15	outside	outside	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 returned	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 returned	nsubj
18	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the soothsayer	the house	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out house=Initial_Location
2	not is	past	Malcolm		long, outside property	tree rules
3	return	past	Malcolm			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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