Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 48

There was the finest rath a little way off from the gable of the house, and he was often in the habit of seating himself on the fine grass bank that was running round it.

Who acts: finest rath, way, habit, fine grass bank · What happens: be, seat, run · To what, where: habit, way, fine grass bank, rath

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 (finest rath, way, habit, fine grass bank), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rath	det
4	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 rath	amod
5	rath	rath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
9	off	off	ADV	_	12 gable	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 gable	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gable	det
12	gable	gable	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gable	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 habit	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 habit	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 habit	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 habit	cop
20	often	often	ADV	_	23 habit	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 habit	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 habit	det
23	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 seating	mark
25	seating	seat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 habit	acl
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 seating	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 bank	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bank	det
29	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bank	amod
30	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bank	compound
31	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seating	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 running	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 running	aux
34	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 bank	acl:relcl
35	round	round	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 running	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	the finest rath		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	way		the habit	often property	tree rules
3	seat	gerund	the habit not said here	way	the fine grass bank		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
4	run	past · progressive	the fine grass bank		rath		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory

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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