Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 9
For save Connla alone, none saw the Fairy Maiden.
Who acts: none · What happens: see · To what, where: Fairy Maiden
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 (none), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 Connla | case |
| 2 | save | save | PUNCT | _ | 3 Connla | punct |
| 3 | Connla | Connla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 Connla | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Connla | punct |
| 6 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Maiden | det |
| 9 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Maiden | compound |
| 10 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | none | the Fairy Maiden | for Connla | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus |
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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