Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 2
One day as he stood by the side of his father on the height of Usna, he saw a maiden clad in strange attire coming towards him.
Who acts: Conn, strange attire · What happens: stand, see, come · To what, where: height
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 (Conn, strange attire), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 stood | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 height | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 height | det |
| 14 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Usna | case |
| 16 | Usna | Usna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 height | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 clad | det |
| 21 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 clad | amod |
| 22 | clad | clad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 saw | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 attire | case |
| 24 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 attire | amod |
| 25 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clad | obl |
| 26 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 attire | acl |
| 27 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 coming | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Conn | the height of Usna | day | by the side of Conn's father | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||
| 2 | see | past | Conn | clad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | strange attire not said here | towards Conn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_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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