Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 69

Well, he travelled and travelled, till he came in sight of the walls of hell; and, bedad, before he knocked at the gates, he rubbed himself over with the greenish ointment.

Who acts: Redhead · What happens: travel, come, knock, rub over, sight · To what, where: sight, bedad, gates, walls

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Redhead), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 travelled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 travelled	nsubj
4	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 travelled	cc
6	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 travelled	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 sight	case
12	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 walls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 walls	det
15	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sight	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 hell	case
17	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walls	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 rubbed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rubbed	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bedad	punct
21	bedad	bedad	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rubbed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knocked	punct
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 knocked	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knocked	nsubj
25	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bedad	acl:relcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 gates	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 gates	det
28	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 knocked	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bedad	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rubbed	nsubj
31	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	conj
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 rubbed	obj
33	over	over	ADP	_	31 rubbed	compound:prt
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 ointment	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ointment	det
36	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 ointment	amod
37	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rubbed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past	Redhead				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	travel	past	Redhead not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	Redhead		sight of the walls of hell		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location
4	knock	past	Redhead	bedad not said here	the gates		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bedad=Theme at gate=Destination
5	rub over	past	Redhead	bedad		with the greenish ointment	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with ointment=Theme
6	sight			the walls of hell			nom sight «cognition 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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