Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 1

Connla of the Fiery Hair was son of Conn of the Hundred Fights.

What happens: be · To what, where: Connla son

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	compound
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 Hair	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hair	det
4	Fiery	Fiery	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hair	compound
5	Hair	Hair	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Connla	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 son	cop
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Conn	case
9	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Fights	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fights	det
12	Hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 Fights	nummod
13	Fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 son	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Connla son				of Conn; of the Hundred Fights	tree rules

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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