Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 70
Hie over cap!" and that moment they were up in the air, and before Guleesh had time to remember where he was, they were down on dry land again, and were going like the wind.
Who acts: you, moment, Guleesh, men · What happens: hie, be, have, remember, go · To what, where: cap, air, dry land · 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, moment, Guleesh, 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 | Hie | hie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 cap | advmod |
| 3 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hie | obj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hie | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hie | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 air | cc |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 air | nsubj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 air | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 air | cop |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 were | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hie | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 18 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hie | parataxis |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 remember | mark |
| 22 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 time | acl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 was | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 was | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 remember | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 land | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 land | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 land | cop |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 32 land | advmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 land | case |
| 31 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 land | amod |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obl |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 land | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 going | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 going | cc |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 going | aux |
| 37 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 had | advcl |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 wind | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wind | det |
| 40 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 going | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hie | imperative | you not said here | cap | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | that moment | the air | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | Guleesh | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remember in a quote | to-infinitive | Guleesh not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | past | GULEESH | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | men = man | dry land | again | down property | tree rules | ||
| 7 | go in a quote | past · progressive | Guleesh not said here | like the wind | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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