Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 43

We ate, drank, played cards, and enjoyed ourselves, till one day when my sons and I were playing, a slender brown hare came rushing in, jumped on to the hearth, tossed up the ashes to the rafters and ran away.

Who acts: We, sons, slender brown hare, hearth · What happens: eat, drink, play, enjoy, come, rush in · To what, where: cards, ourselves, ashes, rafters

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sons, slender brown hare, hearth), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drank	punct
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 played	punct
6	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drank	conj
7	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 played	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 enjoyed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 enjoyed	cc
10	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
11	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 enjoyed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
13	till	till	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 playing	obl:unmarked
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 playing	advmod
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sons	nmod:poss
18	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 playing	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 I	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sons	conj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 playing	aux
22	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 enjoyed	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hare	det
25	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hare	amod
26	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hare	amod
27	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 playing	parataxis
29	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 came	xcomp
30	in	in	ADV	_	29 rushing	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 jumped	punct
32	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	32 jumped	compound:prt
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 hearth	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hearth	det
36	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 jumped	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tossed	punct
38	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 hearth	acl
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 tossed	compound:prt
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ashes	det
41	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 tossed	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 rafters	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 rafters	det
44	rafters	rafter	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 tossed	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 ran	cc
46	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 jumped	conj
47	away	away	ADV	_	46 ran	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	We					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	We not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	past	We not said here	cards				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme
4	enjoy	past	We not said here	ourselves				tree rules
5	play	past · progressive	my sons			day		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	a slender brown hare					tree rules
7	rush in	gerund	a slender brown hare not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	jump on	past	a slender brown hare not said here				to the hearth result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hearth=Result
9	toss up	participle	the hearth not said here	the ashes	the rafters			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ash=Patient to rafter=Recipient
10	run away	past	a slender brown hare not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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