Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 1

When the dancing was over, the old king, her father, and her mother the queen, came up and said that this was the right time to marry her, that the bishop was ready, and it was time to put the wedding-ring on her and give her to her husband.

Who acts: dancing, old king, this, bishop · What happens: be, come up, say, marry, put, give · To what, where: right time, mother, time, wedding ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancing, old king, this, bishop), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 over	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dancing	det
3	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 over	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 over	cop
5	over	over	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 over	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	amod
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 father	punct
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 king	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 queen	det
18	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mother	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mother	punct
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	up	up	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 time	mark
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 time	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 time	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 marry	mark
31	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 time	acl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 marry	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ready	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 ready	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bishop	det
36	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ready	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 ready	cop
38	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 marry	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 time	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 time	cc
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 time	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 time	cop
43	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 put	mark
45	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 time	acl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 ring	det
47	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 ring	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 wedding	punct
49	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 put	obj
50	on	on	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 put	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 give	cc
53	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 put	conj
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 give	iobj
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 husband	case
56	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 husband	nmod:poss
57	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 give	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dancing			over property	tree rules
2	come up	past	the old king and her father				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the old king and her father not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	this	the right time			tree rules
5	marry	to-infinitive	the old king and her father not said here	mother			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	is	past	the bishop			ready property	tree rules
7	is a	past	bishop	time			tree rules
8	put	to-infinitive	the old king and her father not said here	the wedding ring		on mother	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on she=Destination
9	give	infinitive	the old king and her father not said here		mother	to mother's husband	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to husband=Recipient

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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