Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!", sentence 6

And he told the tale of what had befallen him from first to last that night.

Who acts: man · What happens: tell, befall, last · To what, where: tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! 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 (man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tale	det
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 befallen	mark
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 befallen	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 befallen	aux
9	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tale	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 befallen	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 first	case
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 befallen	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 befallen	conj
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 last	obl:unmarked
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man	the tale		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
2	befall	past · perfect · passive		the tale		tree rules
3	last	infinitive			night	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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