Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 14

In truth, the people wondered very much why it was that Fin selected such a windy spot for his dwelling-house, and they even went so far as to tell him as much.

Who acts: people, truth, Fin · What happens: wonder, be, go, tell · To what, where: truth, Cucullin · 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 (people, truth, Fin), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 truth	case
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wondered	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 truth	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wondered	nsubj
6	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 why	advmod
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 wondered	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 selected	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 selected	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 selected	mark
13	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 selected	nsubj
14	selected	select	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 why	ccomp
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 spot	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 spot	det
17	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spot	amod
18	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 selected	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 house	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 house	nmod:poss
21	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 house	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 dwelling	punct
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spot	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 selected	conj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 far	advmod
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 went	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 tell	mark
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 far	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	iobj
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	33 tell	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	the people		truth		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	truth			select property	tree rules
3	go	past	Fin			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Fin not said here	Cucullin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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