Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 57
It's there he heard the _fulparnee_, and the _folpornee_, the _rap-lay-hoota_, and the _roolya-boolya_, that they had there, and every man of them crying out as loud as he could: "My horse, and bridle, and saddle!
Who acts: soul, host, men, horse, folpornee · What happens: be, hear, have, cry out, bridle, saddle · To what, where: fulparnee · 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 (soul, host, men, horse), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 there | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 heard | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fulparnee | det |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 fulparnee | punct |
| 8 | fulparnee | fulparnee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 saddle | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 saddle | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 folpornee | det |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 folpornee | punct |
| 14 | folpornee | folpornee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 saddle | nsubj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 folpornee | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hoota | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hoota | det |
| 18 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hoota | amod |
| 19 | rap | rap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 rap | punct |
| 21 | lay | lay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hoota | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 lay | punct |
| 23 | hoota | hoota | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 folpornee | appos |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 hoota | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 boolya | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 boolya | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 boolya | det |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 boolya | punct |
| 29 | roolya | roolya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 boolya | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 roolya | punct |
| 31 | boolya | boolya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 folpornee | appos |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 boolya | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 had | punct |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 had | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 saddle | parataxis |
| 37 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 had | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 loud | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 loud | cc |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 man | det |
| 41 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 loud | nsubj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 them | case |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 man | nmod |
| 44 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 loud | csubj |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 crying | compound:prt |
| 46 | as | as | ADV | _ | 47 loud | advmod |
| 47 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 had | xcomp |
| 48 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 50 could | mark |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 could | nsubj |
| 50 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 loud | aux |
| 51 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 57 bridle | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 bridle | punct |
| 53 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 horse | nmod:poss |
| 54 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 bridle | nsubj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 bridle | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 bridle | cc |
| 57 | bridle | bridle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 could | conj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 saddle | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 saddle | cc |
| 60 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 61 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | soul | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | host | the fulparnee | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fulparnee=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | men = man | there | loud property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | bridle in a quote | infinitive | My horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | saddle in a quote | the folpornee | tree rules |
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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