Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 33

But when my grandfather clapped eyes on him, he knew him for Patrick Rooney, and all the world knew _he'd_ gone overboard, fishing one night long years before.

Who acts: grandfather, world · What happens: clap, know, _, go, fish · To what, where: eyes, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, world), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 knew	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 clapped	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandfather	nmod:poss
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clapped	nsubj
5	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knew	advcl
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clapped	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clapped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 clapped	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 Patrick	case
14	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 knew	obl
15	Rooney	Rooney	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Patrick	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 knew	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 world	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knew	parataxis
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 _	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 _	nsubj
24	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 _	aux
25	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 knew	ccomp
26	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 _	xcomp
27	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	26 gone	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fishing	punct
29	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 _	advcl
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 night	nummod
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fishing	obl:unmarked
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 years	amod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fishing	obl
34	before	before	ADV	_	33 years	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past	my grandfather	eyes		on man	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
2	know	past	grandfather	man		for Patrick	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	know	past	all world				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	_	would	world				tree rules
5	go	participle	world not said here			overboard property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fish	gerund	world not said here		night; year		vn hunt-35.1 «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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