Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 84

Now, Fin says there's a fine spring-well somewhere under the rocks behind the hill here below, and it was his intention to pull them asunder; but having heard of you, he left the place in such a fury, that he never thought of it.

Who acts: Fin, fine spring rocks, weather, Hill · What happens: say, be, pull, hear, leave, not think · To what, where: intention, Fin, place, fury · 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 (Fin, fine spring rocks, weather, Hill), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 says	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rocks	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rocks	amod
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rocks	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 spring	punct
11	well	well	INTJ	_	15 rocks	discourse
12	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 rocks	advmod
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 rocks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rocks	det
15	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 's	nsubj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 hill	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hill	det
18	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rocks	nmod
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 's	advmod
20	below	below	ADV	_	6 's	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 intention	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 intention	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 intention	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 intention	cop
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 intention	nmod:poss
26	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 pull	mark
28	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 intention	acl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pull	obj
30	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pull	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 heard	cc
33	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 heard	aux
34	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 says	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 heard	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 left	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 left	nsubj
39	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 heard	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 place	det
41	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 left	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 fury	case
43	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	45 fury	det:predet
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 fury	det
45	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 left	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 thought	punct
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 thought	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 thought	nsubj
49	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	50 thought	advmod
50	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 heard	conj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 thought	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Fin			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	does	present	a fine spring rocks behind the hill		here; there		below property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	weather	Hill's intention				tree rules
4	pull	to-infinitive	Fin not said here	Fin				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent they=Theme asunder=Result
5	hear	gerund · perfect	Fin not said here				of you	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of you=Stimulus
6	leave	past	Hill	the place	such fury			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme in fury=Location
7	not think speech: other	past	Hill				of weather	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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