Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 12
I love Connla, and now I call him away to the Plain of Pleasure, Moy Mell, where Boadag is king for aye, nor has there been complaint or sorrow in that land since he has held the kingship.
Who acts: I, Maiden · What happens: love, call away, be, have, hold · To what, where: Connla, Maiden, Plain, Boadag king, complaint, land
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Connla | Connla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 love | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 call | cc |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 call | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 call | nsubj |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 call | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 call | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Plain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Plain | det |
| 13 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Pleasure | case |
| 15 | Pleasure | Pleasure | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Plain | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Mell | punct |
| 17 | Moy | Moy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mell | compound |
| 18 | Mell | Mell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Plain | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 king | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 king | advmod |
| 21 | Boadag | Boadag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 king | compound |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 king | cop |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Plain | appos |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 aye | case |
| 25 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 king | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 has | punct |
| 27 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 has | cc |
| 28 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | parataxis |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 complaint | advmod |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 complaint | cop |
| 31 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | obj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 sorrow | cc |
| 33 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 complaint | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 land | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 land | det |
| 36 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 complaint | nmod |
| 37 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 40 held | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 held | nsubj |
| 39 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 held | aux |
| 40 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 land | acl:relcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 kingship | det |
| 42 | kingship | kingship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 held | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | I | Connla | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer connla=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call away speech: assert | present | I | Maiden | the Plain of Pleasure and Moy Mell | now | away property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to plain=Recipient | |
| 3 | is a | present | Boadag king | for aye | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | participle | complaint or sorrow | that land; there | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hold | present · perfect | Maiden | the kingship | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingship=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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