Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 45

And then they all, king and court, saw it glide away over the bright sea towards the setting sun. Away and away, till eye could see it no longer, and Connla and the Fairy Maiden went their way on the sea, and were no more seen, nor did any know where they came.

Who acts: wives, court, eye, Connla · What happens: see, glide away, go, not see, do, know · To what, where: bright sea, court, way, sea, more, any · 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 (wives, court, eye, Connla), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 they	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 king	punct
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 they	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 court	cc
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 king	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 king	punct
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 glide	nsubj
12	glide	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saw	xcomp
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 glide	advmod
14	over	over	ADP	_	17 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
16	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sea	amod
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glide	obl
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 sun.	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun.	det
20	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sun.	compound
21	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glide	obl
22	Away	away	ADV	_	12 glide	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 away	cc
24	away	away	ADV	_	22 Away	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 see	mark
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saw	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 longer	advmod
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 see	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 went	cc
35	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 went	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Maiden	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Maiden	det
38	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Maiden	compound
39	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Connla	conj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 way	nmod:poss
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obj
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 sea	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sea	det
45	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 seen	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 seen	cc
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 seen	aux
49	no	no	ADV	_	51 seen	advmod
50	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	51 seen	nsubj:pass
51	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 saw	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 did	punct
53	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	54 did	cc
54	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
55	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	54 did	obj
56	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 any	parataxis
57	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	59 came	advmod
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 came	nsubj
59	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 know	ccomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	wives = wife				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	glide away	infinitive	court		the bright sea	towards the setting sun.; away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over sea=Source towards sun.=Trajectory
3	see	could	eye	court		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	go	past	Connla and the Fairy Maiden	wives's way	the sea		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
5	not see	past · passive		more			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	do	past	wives = wife not said here	any			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality
7	know	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	come	past	wives = wife				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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