Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 56

What was in it but the fairy host, though he did not know at first that it was they who were in it, but he followed them into the rath.

Who acts: host, soul, men · What happens: be, not know, follow · To what, where: soul, fairy host, men, sound, face, 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 (host, soul, men), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 host	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 host	det
7	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 host	amod
8	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 know	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 host	acl:relcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 first	case
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 know	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 followed	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 they	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 they	cop
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 followed	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 it	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 it	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 they	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 followed	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 followed	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 followed	nsubj
28	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 know	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 followed	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 rath	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rath	det
32	rath	rath	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 followed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past			soul	tree rules
2	not know	past · do-support	host	the fairy host not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus
3	is a	past	soul	men = man		tree rules
4	is	past			sound	tree rules
5	follow	past	men = man	face	the rath	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into rath=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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