Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 50

After he had been standing that way for a couple of hours, he said to himself: "My bitter grief that I am not gone away out of this place altogether.

Who acts: way · What happens: stand, say, not go away · To what, where: way, place · 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 (way), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 standing	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 standing	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl:unmarked
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 couple	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 couple	det
10	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 hours	case
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 couple	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 standing	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 grief	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 grief	punct
20	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 grief	nmod:poss
21	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grief	amod
22	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 gone	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 gone	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 gone	advmod
27	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 grief	advcl
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 gone	advmod
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 place	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 place	det
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	obl
33	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	32 place	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect · progressive	way	that way			for a couple of hours	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for couple=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	way		way			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	not go away in a quote	present · passive	way			this place	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out place=Initial_Location

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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