Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 34

Then Conn the king observed that since the maiden came, Connla his son spoke to none that spake to him.

Who acts: Conn, Connla, that · What happens: observe, come, speak · To what, where: Conn · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Connla, that), 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 observed	advmod
2	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 observed	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 observed	nsubj
5	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
7	since	since	ADP	_	9 maiden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 observed	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spoke	punct
12	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spoke	nsubj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 son	nmod:poss
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Connla	appos
15	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 observed	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 none	case
17	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	15 spoke	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 spake	nsubj
19	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 none	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spake	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	observe	past	Conn		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	Conn not said here		since the maiden		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past	Connla			to none	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to none=Co-Agent
4	speak speech: other		that	Conn			tree rules

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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