Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 29

But now the folk of life, the ever-living ones, beg and bid thee come to Moy Mell, the Plain of Pleasure, for they have learnt to know thee, seeing thee in thy home among thy dear ones."

Who acts: folk, Plains · What happens: live, bid, come, learn, know, see · To what, where: thee, Moy, home

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 (folk, Plains), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 bid	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 folk	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 folk	det
4	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bid	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 folk	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ones	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ones	det
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 living	advmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ever	punct
11	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 folk	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beg	punct
14	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ones	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 folk	cc
16	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 bid	obj
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bid	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Moy	case
20	Moy	Moy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
21	Mell	Mell	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Moy	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Plain	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Plain	det
24	Plain	Plain	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Moy	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Pleasure	case
26	Pleasure	Pleasure	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Plain	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 learnt	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 learnt	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 learnt	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 learnt	aux
31	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 bid	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 know	mark
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 learnt	xcomp
34	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 know	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 seeing	punct
36	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 know	advcl
37	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 seeing	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 home	case
39	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 home	nmod:poss
40	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seeing	obl
41	among	among	ADP	_	44 ones	case
42	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 ones	nmod:poss
43	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ones	amod
44	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 seeing	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 bid	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 bid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund				ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bid	past	the folk of life and the living ones and beg	thee				tree rules
3	come	infinitive	the folk of life and the living ones and beg not said here		Moy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to moy=Initial_Location
4	learn	present · perfect	Plains = plain					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	know	to-infinitive	Plains = plain not said here	thee				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
6	see	gerund	Plains = plain not said here	thee	thy home		among thy dear ones	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=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.

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