Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 81
When he opened them again and looked from him, he thought he never saw anything as fine as all he saw there.
Who acts: GULEESH · What happens: open, look, think, not see, see · To what, where: nobleman, anything · 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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 saw | advmod |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 saw | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 fine | advmod |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 anything | amod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 fine | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 all | acl:relcl |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 saw | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | GULEESH | nobleman | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | GULEESH not said here | from GULEESH | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | GULEESH | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not see | past | GULEESH | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | past | GULEESH | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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