Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 84
As they went in, the daughter of the king of Erin and the son of the king of Tisean were on their knees just going to be married.
Who acts: sons, daughter · What happens: go in, go, marry · To what, where: knees
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, daughter), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 daughter | det |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 going | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Erin | case |
| 12 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 son | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Erin | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Tisean | case |
| 20 | Tisean | Tisean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 knees | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 knees | nmod:poss |
| 24 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 going | obl |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 going | advmod |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 married | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 married | aux:pass |
| 29 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 going | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | sons = son | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | the daughter of the king of Erin and the son of the king of Tisean | sons's knees | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | the daughter of the king of Erin and the son of the king of Tisean not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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