Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 40

I see the bright sun sink, yet far as it is, we can reach it before dark.

Who acts: I, sink, we · What happens: see, be, reach · To what, where: bright sun sink, sink

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 (I, sink, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sink	det
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sink	amod
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sink	compound
6	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reach	punct
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 reach	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 is	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 is	nsubj
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 reach	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 reach	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 reach	aux
16	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reach	obj
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 dark	case
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reach	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	I	the bright sun sink			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sink=Stimulus
2	be	present	sink				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reach	can	we	sink	before dark	far property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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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