Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 38
Come with me in my curragh, the gleaming, straight-gliding crystal canoe.
Who acts: you, gleaming · What happens: come, glide · To what, where: curragh, crystal canoe
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 (you, gleaming), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Come | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 curragh | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 curragh | nmod:poss |
| 6 | curragh | curragh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gleaming | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gleaming | det |
| 9 | gleaming | gleaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 curragh | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gliding | punct |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gliding | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 straight | punct |
| 13 | gliding | glide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 gleaming | acl |
| 14 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 canoe | amod |
| 15 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gliding | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | my curragh | with me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in curragh=Location | |||
| 2 | glide | gerund | the gleaming not said here | crystal canoe | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme |
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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