Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 72

It appears that some one told him of a big basthoon of a--giant called Cucullin being down at the Causeway to look for him, and so he set out there to try if he could catch him.

Who acts: It, one, Cucullin, husband · What happens: appear, tell, call, be, look, set out · To what, where: husband, big basthoon, Cucullin · 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 (It, one, Cucullin, husband), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 appears	nsubj
2	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 told	mark
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	det
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 appears	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 basthoon	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 basthoon	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 basthoon	amod
11	basthoon	basthoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 a	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 basthoon	nmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 called	amod
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 basthoon	acl
17	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 down	nsubj
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 down	cop
19	down	down	ADV	_	16 called	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 Causeway	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Causeway	det
22	Causeway	Causeway	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 called	advcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 look	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 set	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 set	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 set	nsubj
31	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
32	out	out	ADV	_	31 set	advmod
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 set	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 try	mark
35	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 set	advcl
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 catch	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 catch	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 catch	aux
39	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 try	xcomp
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 catch	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	present	It					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	some one		husband		of a big basthoon of a	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	call	participle		a big basthoon of a not said here			at the Causeway	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at causeway=Stimulus
4	is	gerund	Cucullin				down property	tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive					for husband	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
6	set out	past	husband			there	out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	try	to-infinitive	husband not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	catch a condition, not said to happen	could	husband	Cucullin				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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