Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 23
Fin spent two or three happy days with Oonagh, and felt himself very comfortable, considering the dread he had of Cucullin.
Who acts: Fin, Oonagh · What happens: spend, feel, consider, have · To what, where: Oonagh, dread
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, Oonagh), 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 | 2 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 three | cc |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 two | conj |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spent | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Oonagh | case |
| 9 | Oonagh | Oonagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spent | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 felt | obj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 comfortable | advmod |
| 15 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 considering | punct |
| 17 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 felt | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dread | det |
| 19 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 considering | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 considering | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Cucullin | case |
| 23 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | Fin | day | with Oonagh | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | feel | past | Fin not said here | Oonagh | comfortable property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | consider | gerund | Fin not said here | the dread | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dread=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Oonagh | of Cucullin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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