Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 4

Well, it so happened that Fin and his men were all working at the Causeway, in order to make a bridge across to Scotland; when Fin, who was very fond of his wife Oonagh, took it into his head that he would go home and see how the poor woman got on in his absence.

Who acts: it, Fin, Clear, poor woman · What happens: happen, work, make, be, take, go · To what, where: bridge, head, absence

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 (it, Fin, Clear, poor woman), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happened	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 happened	advmod
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 working	mark
7	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 working	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 men	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 men	nmod:poss
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Fin	conj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 working	aux
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 working	advmod
13	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 happened	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 Causeway	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Causeway	det
16	Causeway	Causeway	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 working	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 order	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 order	case
19	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 working	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 working	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bridge	det
23	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	across	across	ADV	_	21 make	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Scotland	case
26	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 across	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 took	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 took	advmod
29	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 took	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fond	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 fond	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fond	cop
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 fond	advmod
34	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Fin	amod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 wife	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wife	nmod:poss
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fond	obl
38	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 wife	appos
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Fin	punct
40	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happened	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 took	obj
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 head	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 head	nmod:poss
44	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 took	obl
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 go	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 go	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 go	aux
48	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 took	advcl
49	home	home	ADV	_	48 go	advmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 see	cc
51	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 go	conj
52	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	56 got	advmod
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 woman	det
54	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 woman	amod
55	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 got	nsubj
56	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 see	advcl
57	on	on	ADP	_	56 got	compound:prt
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 absence	case
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 absence	nmod:poss
60	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 got	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work	past · progressive	Fin and Clear's men			in order; at the Causeway; all property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at causeway=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	Fin and Clear's men not said here	a bridge		across property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bridge=Product
4	is	past	Fin			of Clear's wife; fond property	tree rules
5	take	past	Fin	bridge	Clear's head		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination
6	go	would	Clear			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	infinitive	Clear not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	get on	past	the poor woman		Clear's absence		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	absent		Clear				nom absence «state 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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