Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 155

As he said these words he vanished; and the story-teller found himself on the spot where they first met, and where his wife still was with the carriage and horses.

Who acts: beggarman, story teller, words · What happens: say, vanish, find, meet, be · To what, where: words, beggarman, spot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggarman, story teller, words), 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 said	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 vanished	nsubj
7	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 words	acl:relcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 teller	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 teller	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 story	punct
13	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 found	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 spot	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spot	det
18	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 met	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 met	nsubj
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 met	advmod
22	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spot	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 where	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 where	cc
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 found	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 where	nsubj
28	still	still	ADV	_	32 carriage	advmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 carriage	cop
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 carriage	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 carriage	det
32	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wife	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 horses	cc
34	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wife	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	beggarman	this words				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	vanish	past	beggarman	this words not said here				tree rules
3	find	past	the story teller	beggarman	the spot			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
4	meet	past	words = word				first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past				still	with the carriage	tree rules

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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