Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 90

Guleesh looked where the little man was pointing with his finger, and there he saw the loveliest woman that was, he thought, upon the ridge of the world.

Who acts: Guleesh, little man · What happens: look, point, see, think · To what, where: loveliest woman

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, little man), 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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 pointing	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pointing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pointing	aux
8	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 finger	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 finger	nmod:poss
11	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pointing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 saw	expl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 was	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 woman	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ridge	punct
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 ridge	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ridge	det
28	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thought	ccomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ridge	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Guleesh				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	point	past · progressive	the little man			with GULEESH's finger	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	GULEESH	the loveliest woman	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	GULEESH				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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