Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 97

But a messenger came in at noon, and said that the Danes were so frightened when they heard of the flail coming into Dublin, that they got into their ships, and sailed away.

Who acts: messenger, Danes, flail · What happens: come in, say, be, hear, come, get · To what, where: Dublin, ships · 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 (messenger, Danes, flail), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 messenger	det
3	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 noon	case
7	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 frightened	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Danes	det
13	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 frightened	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 frightened	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 frightened	advmod
16	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 heard	advcl
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 heard	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 flail	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flail	det
22	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obl
23	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 flail	acl
24	into	into	ADP	_	25 Dublin	case
25	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 coming	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 got	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 got	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 got	nsubj
29	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 ships	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ships	nmod:poss
32	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 got	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sailed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sailed	cc
35	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	conj
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 sailed	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	a messenger		noon		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	a messenger not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	the Danes			frightened property	tree rules
4	hear	past	Danes = dane			of the flail	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of flail=Stimulus
5	come	gerund	the flail not said here	Dublin			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into dublin=Initial_Location
6	get	past	Danes = dane	Danes's ships			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ship=Destination
7	sail away	past	Danes = dane not said here			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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