Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 88

They perceived the woman coming, and called on one another to hasten their step as they had a long distance to travel, and the dusk of night was coming on.

Who acts: Naois, woman, dusk · What happens: perceive, come, call, hasten, have, travel · To what, where: woman, step, long distance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Naois, woman, dusk), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 perceived	nsubj
2	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perceived	obj
5	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 woman	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 called	cc
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 perceived	parataxis
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 called	xcomp
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	fixed
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hasten	mark
13	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 called	advcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 step	nmod:poss
15	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hasten	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hasten	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 distance	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 distance	amod
21	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 travel	mark
23	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 distance	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 coming	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 coming	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dusk	det
27	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 coming	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 night	case
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dusk	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 coming	aux
31	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 perceived	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 coming	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	perceive	past	Naois	the woman	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	the woman not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	participle			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hasten	to-infinitive		Naois's step	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent step=Patient
5	have	past	Naois	a long distance	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Patient
6	travel	to-infinitive	Naois not said here	a long distance not said here	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come on	past · progressive	the dusk of night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	step		Naois		nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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