Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 86

Guleesh and his companions were standing together at the head of the hall, where there was a fine altar dressed up, and two bishops behind it waiting to marry the girl, as soon as the right time should come.

Who acts: Guleesh, fine altar, two bishops, right time · What happens: stand together, be, dress up, wait, marry, come · To what, where: two bishops, head, fine altar, girl

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, fine altar, two bishops, right time), 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	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 standing	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 companions	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 companions	nmod:poss
4	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Guleesh	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	aux
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 standing	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 head	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 was	advmod
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 altar	det
19	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 altar	amod
20	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
21	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 altar	acl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 dressed	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bishops	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bishops	cc
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 bishops	nummod
26	bishops	bishop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 standing	obl
27	behind	behind	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bishops	nmod
29	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 bishops	acl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 marry	mark
31	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 waiting	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 girl	det
33	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 marry	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 soon	punct
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 soon	advmod
36	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 standing	advmod
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 come	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 time	det
39	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 time	amod
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 come	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 come	aux
42	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 soon	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand together	past · progressive	Guleesh and GULEESH's companions	two bishops behind altar	the head of the hall	soon, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=Location
2	be	past	a fine altar		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dress up	participle		a fine altar not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	gerund	two bishops behind altar not said here				tree rules
5	marry	to-infinitive	two bishops behind altar not said here	the girl			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
6	come	should	the right time				vn escape-51.1-1 «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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