Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 21
Then Coran the Druid stood forth and chanted his spells towards the spot where the maiden's voice had been heard.
Who acts: Coran · What happens: stand, chant, hear, spell · To what, where: spells, voice
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 (Coran), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | Coran | Coran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Druid | det |
| 4 | Druid | Druid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Coran | flat |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chanted | cc |
| 8 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 spells | nmod:poss |
| 10 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chanted | obj |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 spot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spot | det |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chanted | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 heard | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 maiden | case |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 heard | aux:pass |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 spot | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Coran | then | forth property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | chant | past | Coran not said here | Coran's spells | towards the spot | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spell=Topic towards spot=Recipient | |||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect · passive | the maiden's voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | spell | Coran | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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