Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 101

He began thinking, then, what it was he ought to do to save her, but he could think of nothing. "

Who acts: GULEESH · What happens: begin, think, do, save · To what, where: Musha

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: who acts (GULEESH), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 began	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 what	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 began	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ought	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ought	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ought	nsubj
11	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ought	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 save	mark
15	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 do	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 save	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 think	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 think	aux
21	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 nothing	case
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 think	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	GULEESH			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	gerund	GULEESH not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	to-infinitive	GULEESH not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	save	to-infinitive	GULEESH not said here	Musha		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	think speech: other	could	GULEESH		of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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