Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 23

Only as she vanished before the Druid's mighty spell, she threw an apple to Connla.

Who acts: Connla, Druid · What happens: vanish, throw, spell · To what, where: apple, Connla

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 (Connla, Druid), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 vanished	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 vanished	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vanished	nsubj
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	10 spell	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Druid	det
7	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 spell	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Druid	case
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spell	amod
10	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	nsubj
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vanished	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 apple	det
15	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Connla	case
17	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	vanish	past	Connla			before the Druid's mighty spell	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past	Connla	a apple	Connla		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent apple=Theme to connla=Destination
3	spell		the Druid				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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