Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 58

It was the second time he spoke, and Andrew Coffey decided he would come down.

Who acts: wind, Patrick, Andrew · What happens: be, speak, decide, come down · To what, where: second time · 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 (wind, Patrick, Andrew), 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	5 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spoke	nsubj
7	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 decided	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 decided	cc
10	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 decided	nsubj
11	Coffey	Coffey	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Andrew	flat
12	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spoke	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 decided	ccomp
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	wind	the second time		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	Patrick	the second time not said here		tree rules
3	decide	past	Andrew			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come down	would	Andrew		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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