Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 104

Guleesh had double pity for her then, when he saw the lad taking her by the soft white hand, and drawing her out to dance.

Who acts: Guleesh, lad, drawing · What happens: have, see, take, draw out, dance · To what, where: double pity, lad, 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, lad, drawing), 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	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pity	amod
4	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 saw	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 saw	nmod:poss
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 saw	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lad	det
13	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 lad	acl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taking	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	20 hand	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hand	det
18	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hand	amod
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hand	amod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dance	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dance	cc
23	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 dance	csubj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drawing	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	23 drawing	compound:prt
26	to	to	PART	_	27 dance	mark
27	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Guleesh	double pity				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	see	past	GULEESH	the lad		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lad=Stimulus
3	take	gerund	the lad not said here		Musha		by the soft white hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
4	draw out	gerund		Musha				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	dance	to-infinitive	drawing					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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