Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 128

He started out of the cradle, and in a few minutes the great Cucullin, that was for such a length of time the terror of him and all his followers, lay a corpse before him.

Who acts: Cucullin, that · What happens: start out, be, lay · To what, where: cradle, corpse

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 (Cucullin, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 cradle	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cradle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cradle	det
6	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 started	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lay	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 minutes	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 minutes	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 minutes	amod
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lay	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Cucullin	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Cucullin	amod
15	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 minutes	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 length	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 length	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 length	cop
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 length	case
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 length	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 length	det
22	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Cucullin	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 time	case
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 length	nmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 terror	det
26	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 him	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 time	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 followers	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 followers	det:predet
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 followers	nmod:poss
32	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 him	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 minutes	punct
34	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 started	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 corpse	det
36	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	obj
37	before	before	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lay	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	start out	past	Cucullin	the cradle			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cradle=Eventuality
2	is	past	that		time	for such length	tree rules
3	lay	present		a corpse	before Cucullin; minute		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme before he=Destination

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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