Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 67

The cold winter's wind that was before them, they overtook her, and the cold winter's wind that was behind them, she did not overtake them.

Who acts: that, men, Folk, cold winter · What happens: be, overtake, not overtake, wind · To what, where: Folk, men

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 (that, men, Folk, cold winter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winter	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 winter	amod
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wind	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 winter	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 them	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 them	cop
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wind	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 overtook	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 overtook	nsubj
12	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wind	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 overtook	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wind	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wind	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 winter	det
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 winter	amod
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wind	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 winter	case
20	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wind	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 them	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 them	cop
23	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wind	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 overtake	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 overtake	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 overtake	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 overtake	advmod
29	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wind	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 overtake	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that		before men = man		tree rules
2	overtake	past	men = man	Folk			tree rules
3	is	past	that			behind men = man	tree rules
4	not overtake	past · do-support	Folk	men = man			tree rules
5	wind		the cold winter				nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent
6	wind		the cold winter				nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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