Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 87

Now nobody could see the sheehogues, for they said a word as they came in, that made them all invisible, as if they had not been in it at all.

Who acts: nobody, sheehogues, that · What happens: see, say, come in, make · To what, where: sheehogues, word · 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 (nobody, sheehogues, that), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 see	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheehogues	det
6	sheehogues	sheehogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 invisible	det
22	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 made	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	33 all	case
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 all	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 all	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 all	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 all	advmod
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 all	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 been	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 made	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	nobody	the sheehogues	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheehogue=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	sheehogues = sheehogue	a word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	come in	past	sheehogues = sheehogue				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	past	that	sheehogues = sheehogue		as all; invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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