Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 81
They hurried on; and when within three miles of the king's castle there was such a throng of people that no one could go a step ahead. "
Who acts: sons, people · What happens: hurry on, be, go · To what, where: throng, step
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 (sons, people), 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 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 hurried | compound:prt |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 throng | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 throng | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 was | advmod |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 9 miles | case |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 miles | nummod |
| 9 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 was | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 castle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 miles | nmod |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 throng | cop |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 throng | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 throng | det |
| 19 | throng | throng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hurried | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 throng | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 go | nsubj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 people | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 step | det |
| 28 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obj |
| 29 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry on | past | sons = son | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | such throng | of people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | could | people | a step | ahead property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=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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