Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 54

Oonagh then drew the nine woollen threads of different colours, which she always did to find out the best way of succeeding in anything of importance she went about.

Who acts: Oonagh, wife, best way · What happens: draw, find out, succeed, go about · To what, where: nine woollen threads, different colours, anything

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 (Oonagh, wife, best way), 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	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drew	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 drew	advmod
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 threads	det
5	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 threads	nummod
6	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 threads	amod
7	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drew	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 colours	case
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 colours	amod
10	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 threads	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 find	obj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 find	advmod
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 colours	acl:relcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 find	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 succeeding	mark
23	succeeding	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 way	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 anything	case
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 succeeding	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 importance	case
27	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 anything	nmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 anything	acl:relcl
30	about	about	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Oonagh	the nine woollen threads of different colours		then		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
2	find out	past · do-support	wife	different colours			always property	tree rules
3	succeed	gerund	the best way not said here		anything			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in anything=Eventuality
4	go about	past	wife				about property	vn confront-98 «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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