Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 49
One night he stood, half leaning against the gable of the house, and looking up into the sky, and watching the beautiful white moon over his head.
Who acts: way, half · What happens: stand, lean, look up, watch · To what, where: half, gable, beautiful white moon, head
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 (way, half), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 half | punct |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 half | acl |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 gable | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gable | det |
| 10 | gable | gable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaning | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gable | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looking | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looking | cc |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 looking | compound:prt |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sky | det |
| 20 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 watching | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 watching | cc |
| 23 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 looking | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 moon | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 moon | amod |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 moon | amod |
| 27 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 watching | obj |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 watching | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | way | half | night | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lean | gerund | half not said here | the gable of the house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against gable=Location | ||||
| 3 | look up | gerund | way not said here | into the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=Theme | ||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | way not said here | the beautiful white moon | way's head | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=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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