Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 26

And all the while there grew within him a mighty yearning and longing after the maiden he had seen.

Who acts: while, age · What happens: grow, long, see · To what, where: mighty yearning, maiden

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 (while, age), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 grew	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 while	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 while	det
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 grew	advmod
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	within	within	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grew	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 yearning	det
10	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 yearning	amod
11	yearning	yearning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl:unmarked
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 longing	cc
13	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 yearning	conj
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 maiden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 longing	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seen	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 maiden	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	grow	past	all while	a mighty yearning	there	within age	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	long	gerund	all while not said here			after the maiden	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	see	past · perfect	age	the maiden not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/4/26/