Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 6

Glad he was then when he saw a light in the distance, and drawing near found a cabin, though for the life of him he couldn't think how it came there.

Who acts: Glad, clearing · What happens: be, draw, find, not think, come · To what, where: cabin

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 (Glad, clearing), 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	Glad	glad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	cop
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 saw	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 distance	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 distance	det
12	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
15	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 found	nsubj
16	near	near	ADV	_	15 drawing	advmod
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cabin	det
19	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 think	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 think	mark
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 life	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 life	det
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 think	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 life	nmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 think	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 think	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 think	advmod
30	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 found	conj
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 came	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 think	advcl
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 came	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Glad			then	in the distance; see property	tree rules
2	draw	gerund					near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past		a cabin				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabin=Topic
4	not think speech: other	could	clearing				for the life of clearing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	Glad		there			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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