Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 79
They got off their horses there, and a man of them said a word that Guleesh did not understand, and on the moment they were lifted up, and Guleesh found himself and his companions in the palace.
Who acts: men, man, Guleesh · What happens: get off, say, not understand, lift up, find · To what, where: horses, word, men, GULEESH, palace · 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 (men, man, Guleesh), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 got | compound:prt |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horses | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 man | nmod |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 understand | obj |
| 17 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 understand | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 understand | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 understand | advmod |
| 20 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 word | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lifted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lifted | cc |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 moment | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 moment | det |
| 25 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lifted | obl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lifted | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lifted | aux:pass |
| 28 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 lifted | compound:prt |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 found | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 found | cc |
| 32 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 found | nsubj |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lifted | parataxis |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 found | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 companions | cc |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 companions | nmod:poss |
| 37 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 himself | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 palace | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 palace | det |
| 40 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | past | men = man | men's horses | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a man of flesh | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not understand | past · do-support | Guleesh | a word | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lift up | past · passive | men = man | moment | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Guleesh | GULEESH | the palace | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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