Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 76
O'Donnell was in his hall, and heaviness of flesh and weariness of spirit were upon him.
Who acts: O'Donnell · What happens: be · To what, where: hall
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 (O'Donnell), 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 | O'Donnell | O'Donnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hall | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hall | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hall | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heaviness | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 heaviness | cc |
| 8 | heaviness | heaviness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hall | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 flesh | case |
| 10 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heaviness | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 weariness | cc |
| 12 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flesh | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 spirit | case |
| 14 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weariness | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 him | cop |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hall | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | O'Donnell | O'Donnell's hall | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | O'Donnell not said here | upon teller | 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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