Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 16

The king in fear at what the maiden said, which he heard though he could not see her, called aloud to his Druid, Coran by name.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: say, hear, not see, call · To what, where: Connla, Druid · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 fear	case
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 king	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maiden	det
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 heard	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 see	advmod
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 heard	ccomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 see	conj
22	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	21 called	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Druid	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 Druid	nmod:poss
25	Druid	druid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Coran	punct
27	Coran	Coran	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Druid	appos
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 name	case
29	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Coran	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the maiden				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	Maiden				tree rules
3	not see	could	Maiden	Connla			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	call	participle	Maiden not said here		Maiden's Druid	aloud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to druid=Recipient

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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