Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 61
At length, the next day, Cucullin was seen coming across the valley, and Oonagh knew that it was time to commence operations.
Who acts: Cucullin, Oonagh, valley · What happens: see, come, know, be, commence · To what, where: Cucullin, length, valley, time, operations · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Cucullin, Oonagh, valley), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 8 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 seen | xcomp |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 valley | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 valley | det |
| 14 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knew | cc |
| 17 | Oonagh | Oonagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 time | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 time | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 time | cop |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 commence | mark |
| 24 | commence | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 time | acl |
| 25 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 commence | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | Cucullin | length and the next day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | Cucullin not said here | the valley | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across valley=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Oonagh | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | valley | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | commence | to-infinitive | Oonagh not said here | operations | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality |
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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