Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 44

When the maiden ceased to speak, Connla of the Fiery Hair rushed away from them and sprang into the curragh, the gleaming, straight-gliding crystal canoe.

Who acts: maiden, Connla, gleaming · What happens: cease, speak, rush, spring, glide · To what, where: curragh, crystal canoe · 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 (maiden, Connla, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ceased	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ceased	nsubj
4	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rushed	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ceased	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ceased	punct
8	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rushed	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Hair	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Hair	det
11	Fiery	Fiery	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Hair	compound
12	Hair	Hair	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Connla	nmod
13	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 rushed	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 away	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sprang	cc
18	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rushed	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 curragh	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 curragh	det
21	curragh	curragh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprang	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gleaming	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gleaming	det
24	gleaming	gleaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 curragh	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gliding	punct
26	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gliding	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 straight	punct
28	gliding	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 gleaming	acl
29	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 canoe	amod
30	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gliding	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cease	past	the maiden				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rush	past	Connla of the Fiery Hair			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spring	past	Connla of the Fiery Hair not said here		the curragh		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into curragh=Destination
5	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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