Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 24

This, however, grew upon him so much that his wife could not but perceive something lay on his mind which he kept altogether to himself.

Who acts: This, something, Oonagh · What happens: grow, perceive, lie, keep, mind · To what, where: mind, Oonagh

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, something, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 grew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 This	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	5 grew	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	16 perceive	advmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 perceive	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 could	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 perceive	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 could	advmod
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 perceive	cc
16	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grew	advcl
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 perceive	ccomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 mind	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mind	nmod:poss
21	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 kept	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kept	nsubj
24	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mind	acl:relcl
25	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	24 kept	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 kept	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	This				upon Oonagh; however property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
2	perceive	could	This not said here					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lie	past	something			Oonagh's mind		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mind=Location
4	keep	past	Oonagh	Oonagh's mind	Oonagh		altogether property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
5	mind		Oonagh					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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