Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 121

Fin, in the meantime, had gone into the cradle, where he lay very quietly, his heart at his mouth with delight that Cucullin was about to take his departure, without discovering the tricks that had been played off on him.

Who acts: Fin, Cucullin · What happens: go, lie, be, take, discover, play off · To what, where: cradle, heart, delight, departure, tricks

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fin, Cucullin), 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	Fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 meantime	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 meantime	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meantime	det
5	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fin	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fin	punct
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 cradle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cradle	det
11	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 lay	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	parataxis
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 quietly	advmod
17	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	15 lay	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heart	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heart	nmod:poss
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 mouth	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouth	nmod:poss
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heart	nmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 delight	case
25	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mouth	nmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 about	mark
27	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 about	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 about	cop
29	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 delight	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 about	xcomp
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 departure	nmod:poss
33	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 discovering	punct
35	without	without	SCONJ	_	36 discovering	mark
36	discovering	discover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lay	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tricks	det
38	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 discovering	obj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 played	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 played	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 played	aux:pass
42	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 tricks	acl:relcl
43	off	off	ADP	_	42 played	compound:prt
44	on	on	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 played	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Fin and the meantime		the cradle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cradle=Initial_Location
2	lie	past	Cucullin	Cucullin's heart at Cucullin's mouth with delight		quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Cucullin	delight not said here		about property	tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	Cucullin not said here	Cucullin's departure			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme
5	discover	gerund	Cucullin not said here	the tricks			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic
6	play off	past · perfect · passive		the tricks		on Cucullin	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	depart		Cucullin				nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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