Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 14
It was the hill on which Finn stood when he gave himself as the prize to the Irish maiden who should run up it quickest.
Who acts: house, Finn, Irish maiden · What happens: be, stand, give, run up · To what, where: hill, Finn, Irish maiden
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, Finn, Irish maiden), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hill | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hill | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hill | det |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stood | obl |
| 7 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hill | acl:relcl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 gave | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 prize | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prize | det |
| 15 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 maiden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 maiden | det |
| 18 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 maiden | amod |
| 19 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 run | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 run | aux |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 maiden | acl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 run | compound:prt |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 quickest | nsubj |
| 25 | quickest | quick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 run | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | house | the hill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Finn | the hill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Finn | Finn | the Irish maiden | as the prize | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to maiden=Recipient | ||
| 4 | run up | should | the Irish maiden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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