Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 66
"If you are, come along," said the little man, and out they went all together, riding like the wind, faster than the fastest horse ever you saw a-hunting, and faster than the fox and the hounds at his tail.
Who acts: you, little man, men · What happens: be, come along, say, go, ride, see · To what, where: hunting · 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 (you, little man, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 are | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 are | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 together | advmod |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 riding | punct |
| 22 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 went | advcl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 wind | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wind | det |
| 25 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 riding | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 faster | punct |
| 27 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 riding | advmod |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 horse | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 horse | det |
| 30 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 horse | amod |
| 31 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 faster | obl |
| 32 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 34 saw | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 saw | nsubj |
| 34 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 riding | advcl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 hunting | det |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 a | punct |
| 37 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 saw | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 faster | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 faster | cc |
| 40 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 said | conj |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 fox | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 fox | det |
| 43 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 faster | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 hounds | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 hounds | det |
| 46 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 fox | conj |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 tail | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 tail | nmod:poss |
| 49 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 faster | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come along in a quote | infinitive | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | past | men = man | together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ride | gerund | men = man not said here | like the wind | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | see | past | you | a hunting | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunting=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/4/66/