Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 96

You may be sure no other body went near it; and when the early risers were passing next morning, they found two long clefts in the stone, where it was after burning itself an opening downwards, nobody could tell how far.

Who acts: You, other body, early risers, risers, palace, nobody · What happens: be, go, pass, find, burn, open · To what, where: palace, two long clefts, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, other body, early risers, risers), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sure	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	cop
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 body	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 body	amod
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	ccomp
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 passing	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 risers	det
15	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 risers	amod
16	risers	riser	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passing	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 passing	aux
18	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 found	advcl
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 morning	amod
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passing	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 passing	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	parataxis
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 clefts	nummod
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 clefts	amod
26	clefts	cleft	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 found	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 stone	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stone	det
29	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 clefts	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 burning	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 burning	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 burning	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 burning	aux
34	after	after	SCONJ	_	35 burning	mark
35	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 clefts	conj
36	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 burning	obj
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 opening	det
38	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 burning	advcl
39	downwards	downwards	ADV	_	38 opening	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tell	punct
41	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	43 tell	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 tell	aux
43	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 found	conj
44	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	45 far	advmod
45	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 tell	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	You				sure property	tree rules
2	go	past	no other body		palace			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near it=Location
3	pass	past · progressive	the early risers			morning		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	risers = riser	two long clefts	the stone			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleft=Topic
5	burn	past · progressive	palace	palace				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
6	open	gerund	palace not said here				downwards property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	could	nobody				far property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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