Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 94
Guleesh was nearly blinded with all the loveliness and beauty that was in her; but when he looked again, he saw that she was crying, and that there was the trace of tears in her eyes. "
Who acts: that, GULEESH, woman, trace · What happens: blind, be, look, see, cry · To what, where: Guleesh
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 (that, GULEESH, woman, trace), 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 | 4 blinded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blinded | aux:pass |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 blinded | advmod |
| 4 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 loveliness | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 loveliness | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 loveliness | det |
| 8 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blinded | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beauty | cc |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loveliness | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 her | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 her | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 loveliness | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 looked | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 saw | advcl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 looked | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blinded | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 crying | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 crying | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 crying | aux |
| 27 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 saw | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 was | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 was | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 was | mark |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 was | expl |
| 32 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blinded | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 trace | det |
| 34 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 was | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 tears | case |
| 36 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 trace | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 trace | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blinded | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blinded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blind | past · passive | Guleesh | with all loveliness and beauty; nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | in woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | GULEESH | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past | GULEESH | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | be | past | the trace of tears in woman's eyes | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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