Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 105
They went round in the dance near where Guleesh was, and he could plainly see that there were tears in her eyes.
Who acts: garments, Guleesh, tears · What happens: go round, be, see · To what, where: dance, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (garments, Guleesh, tears), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dance | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dance | det |
| 6 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 was | advmod |
| 9 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 were | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | ccomp |
| 20 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go round | past | garments = garment | the dance | round property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in dance=Location | |||
| 2 | be | past | Guleesh | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | could | GULEESH | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | be | past | tears | Musha's eyes; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location |
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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