Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 83

The musicians were at the two ends of the hall, and they were playing the sweetest music that ever a man's ear heard, and there were young women and fine youths in the middle of the hall, dancing and turning, and going round so quickly and so lightly, that it put a _soorawn_ in Guleesh's head to be looking at them.

Who acts: musicians, ear, young women · What happens: be, play, hear, dance, turn, go round · To what, where: two ends, sweetest music, soorawn, head

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 (musicians, ear, young women), 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	2 musicians	det
2	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ends	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ends	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 ends	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ends	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ends	nummod
7	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ends	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 playing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 playing	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 playing	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 playing	aux
15	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ends	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 music	det
17	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 music	amod
18	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 playing	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 heard	obj
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 man	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ear	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 man	case
24	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 music	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 were	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 were	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 were	expl
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dancing	advcl
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 women	amod
31	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 were	nsubj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 youths	cc
33	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 youths	amod
34	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 women	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 middle	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 middle	det
37	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 youths	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 hall	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hall	det
40	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 middle	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dancing	punct
42	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 playing	parataxis
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 turning	cc
44	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 dancing	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 going	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 going	cc
47	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 dancing	conj
48	round	round	ADV	_	47 going	advmod
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 quickly	advmod
50	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	47 going	advmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 lightly	cc
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 lightly	advmod
53	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	42 dancing	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 put	punct
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 put	mark
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 put	nsubj
57	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dancing	conj
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 soorawn	det
59	_	_	PUNCT	_	60 soorawn	punct
60	soorawn	soorawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 put	obj
61	_	_	PUNCT	_	57 put	punct
62	in	in	ADP	_	65 head	case
63	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 head	nmod:poss
64	's	's	PART	_	63 Guleesh	case
65	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 put	obl
66	to	to	PART	_	68 looking	mark
67	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	68 looking	aux
68	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 put	advcl
69	at	at	ADP	_	70 them	case
70	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 looking	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the musicians			at the two ends	of the hall	tree rules
2	play	past · progressive	musicians = musician	the sweetest music				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme
3	hear	past	a man's ear	the sweetest music				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	be	past	young women and fine youths in the middle of the hall		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dance	gerund						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	turn	gerund						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	go round	gerund					quickly, round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	put	past	ear	a soorawn	Guleesh's head			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soorawn=Theme in head=Destination
9	look	to-infinitive · progressive	ear not said here				at musicians = musician	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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