Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 13

He accordingly pulled up the fir-tree, as I said before, and having snedded it into a walking-stick, set out on his travels to see his darling Oonagh on the top of Knockmany, by the way.

Who acts: Cucullin, I · What happens: pull up, say, have, snedd, set out, travel · To what, where: fir tree, tree, walking stick, darling Oonagh, top · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I), 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	3 pulled	nsubj
2	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	3 pulled	advmod
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pulled	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fir	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
13	before	before	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 snedded	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 snedded	cc
16	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 snedded	reparandum
17	snedded	snedd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 snedded	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 stick	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stick	det
21	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stick	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 walking	punct
23	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snedded	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
25	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 stick	acl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 set	compound:prt
27	on	on	SCONJ	_	29 travels	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 travels	nmod:poss
29	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 set	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 travels	xcomp
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 Oonagh	nmod:poss
33	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Oonagh	amod
34	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 top	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 top	det
37	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Knockmany	case
39	Knockmany	Knockmany	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 top	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 way	punct
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 way	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 way	det
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull up	past	Cucullin	the fir tree		accordingly property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	I			before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	snedd	past	Cucullin not said here	tree	a walking stick		tree rules
5	set out	participle		a walking stick not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	travel	present					tree rules
7	see	to-infinitive		Cucullin's darling Oonagh	the top of Knockmany	by the way	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oonagh=Stimulus

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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