Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 18

Now, this was more of Fin's philosophy; for the real state of the case was, that he pitched upon the top of Knockmany in order that he might be able to see Cucullin coming towards the house.

Who acts: this, mane, Cucullin · What happens: be, see, come · To what, where: real state, Cucullin, house

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 (this, mane, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 philosophy	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 philosophy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 philosophy	cop
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 philosophy	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 philosophy	case
7	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 philosophy	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Fin	case
9	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 state	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 state	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 state	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 state	amod
14	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 philosophy	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 case	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 case	det
17	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 state	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pitched	cop
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pitched	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 pitched	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pitched	nsubj
22	pitched	pitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 state	acl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 top	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 top	det
25	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pitched	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Knockmany	case
27	Knockmany	Knockmany	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 top	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 order	case
29	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 top	nmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 able	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 able	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 able	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	cop
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pitched	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 see	obj
38	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 see	xcomp
39	towards	towards	ADP	_	41 house	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 house	det
41	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 coming	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 philosophy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this			now	of Fin's more philosophy	tree rules
2	is	past	mane	the real state of the case not said here			upon the top of Knockmany in order; pitch property	tree rules
3	is	might	mane				able property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	mane not said here	Cucullin				tree rules
5	come	gerund	Cucullin not said here		the house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards house=Initial_Location

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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