Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 86

She then brought Cucullin down to see the place, which was then all one solid rock; and, after looking at it for some time, he cracked his right middle finger nine times, and, stooping down, tore a cleft about four hundred feet deep, and a quarter of a mile in length, which has since been christened by the name of Lumford's Glen.

Who acts: troth, place, Cucullin, name · What happens: bring down, see, be, look, crack, stoop down · To what, where: Cucullin, place, one solid rock, right middle finger, quarter, Glen

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 (troth, place, Cucullin, name), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 brought	advmod
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 brought	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rock	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 rock	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rock	cop
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 rock	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 rock	det
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 rock	nummod
16	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rock	amod
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	appos
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 cracked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cracked	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 looking	mark
22	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 cracked	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looking	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looking	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looking	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cracked	nsubj
30	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 finger	nmod:poss
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 finger	amod
33	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 finger	amod
34	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cracked	obj
35	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 times	nummod
36	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cracked	obl:unmarked
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stooping	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 stooping	cc
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stooping	punct
40	stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 cracked	advcl
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 stooping	compound:prt
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 cleft	punct
43	tore	tore	ADP	_	45 cleft	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 cleft	det
45	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stooping	parataxis
46	about	about	ADV	_	48 hundred	advmod
47	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 hundred	compound
48	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 feet	nummod
49	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 deep	obl:unmarked
50	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 cleft	amod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 christened	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 christened	cc
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 quarter	det
54	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 christened	nsubj:pass
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 mile	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 mile	det
57	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 quarter	nmod
58	in	in	ADP	_	59 length	case
59	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 mile	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 has	punct
61	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 has	nsubj
62	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 christened	aux
63	since	since	SCONJ	_	65 christened	mark
64	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	65 christened	aux:pass
65	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 brought	conj
66	by	by	ADP	_	68 name	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 name	det
68	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 christened	obl
69	of	of	ADP	_	72 Glen	case
70	Lumford	Lumford	PROPN	Number=Sing	72 Glen	nmod:poss
71	's	's	PART	_	70 Lumford	case
72	Glen	Glen	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 name	nmod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring down	past	troth		Cucullin	then	down property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cucullin=Destination
2	see	to-infinitive	troth not said here	the place				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
3	is a	past	the place	all one solid rock		then		tree rules
4	look	gerund	Cucullin not said here			time	at place	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
5	crack	past	Cucullin	Cucullin's right middle finger		time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme
6	stoop down	gerund	Cucullin not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	christen	present · perfect · passive	the name of Lumford's Glen	a quarter of a mile in length				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
8	name			Lumford's Glen				nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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