Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 68
And stop nor stay of that full race, did they make none, until they came to the brink of the sea.
Who acts: you, men · What happens: stop, stay, make, come · To what, where: none, brink
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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 stop | cc |
| 2 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 stay | cc |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 stop | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 race | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 race | det |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 race | amod |
| 8 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stay | advcl |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 brink | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brink | det |
| 20 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brink | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | you not said here | of that full race | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past · do-support | men = man | none | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset none=Product | ||||
| 4 | come | past | men = man | the brink of the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brink=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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